Do you have a funny tale of household horror? What terrible things have your DCs done to your home when your back was turned? Tell Valspar and you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher!- NOW CLOSED

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Have you ever turned your back for what seemed like seconds only to return to a pencil/crayon ‘work of art’ on your newly painted walls? Has there ever been an ‘incident’ involving a TV and a football? Have your children ever wreaked havoc with an unguarded tin of paint? If so, Valspar wants to know.

Valspar say "With great durability, Valspar Paint can withstand even the toughest parts of daily living and maintain its colour (even hundreds of scrubs!). So if those tiny, mucky hands and colouring crayons go astray – fear not. We have made sure you can scrub away the mess without the worry of taking a layer of paint off too – just in case your little one does decide to release their inner Picasso on your living room walls."

So, what are the most awful, or funniest, things that your children have done to your house while your back was turned? Whether the crime was big or small, Valspar would love to hear your stories.

Everyone who adds a comment to this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will receive a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

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Forgot the time someone decided to put the plug in the upstairs bath & turn the tap on slightly whilst I was staging my daily 'get 3 toddlers dressed' wrangling/exhibition one morning.
It wasn't until teatime, when the bath finally overflowed & began pouring down the hall light fitting, that we realised there was a mini-flood going on.

It took several years until the twin who claimed innocence at the time admitted he'd made his brother take the blame when it was him all along. (We always knew that was the case).

Toilet roll chucked down the toilet

I was out one time and daddy had the job of looking after the dc's. I can home to see him scrubbing the dining room walls. When I asked why he said they had asked if they could do drawing so he gave them some paper. When they had run out they decided that they wanted to make mummy a beautiful picture for when I got back. They had drawn round one of their sisters and then coloured it all in. Needless to say daddy was not impressed especially as the last time I went out they chopped their hair

OMG i have a list as long as my arm, where to start. One of the funniest was my own fault i had been in the kitchen sorting out the cupboards when the do went so i went to answer in and in my return i was horrid to find not only had my little one found the flour and food dye (the one bottle that leaked) and go around the kitchen and dinning room tipping it everywhere and all over herself but she then once bathed i leaf her with the talc powder which i thought i had closed the lid worked out her bedroom she wanted white!
I could not tell her off as both times it was my own fault. Finding the food dye in the washing machine after i had done a load of washing was not the best tho

Left son aged three colouring with wax crayons in living room to nip upstairs with clean washing. Returning down stairs could smell something really horrible and smoke everywhere. Ran to kitchen - most obvious place for fire? - and realised smoke was thicker in living room. Ran to find whole room filled with smoke and him in the middle with no sign of flames. Grabbed son, ran to front door and deposited him on doorstep and then headed back into living room to find smoke is pouring out of gas fire. Lovely son had "posted" his wax crayons down the ventilation outlet for fire. Wax crayons not only smell horrible and smoke badly but as they melt and then reset they leave lovely coloured streaks all over the gas fire.

This was a particularly challenging child - he also managed to do a poo in the middle of the living room and covered it up with his big sister's comic thinking she would then get the blame!

the wall in living room was painted like its a canvas! Needless to say, We had to repaint !

Covered the entire bathroom (walls/floor/sink/windows/toilet) with a whole can of foaming bathroom cleaner.

Used sellotape to make a Web criss crossing the stairs, wrapped round all the door handles/bannisters (spiderman phase).

Watered the TV 'to make it bigger'.

My Ds (4) decided he wanted to draw a picture for daddy, I was talking to the neighbour on the driveway at the time and didn't realise he meant with a rock on the car... Within seconds he had drawn a line all around the car (a bow he says) and a big scribble (face) on the bonnet!!!

All panels had to be resprayed as it had gone to deep, so a £1000 piece of artwork for daddy that day

Daddy decided to redecorate the living room (mummy was happy) but teaching the toddler to rip off the wallpaper in preparation has made for lots and lots of work. he thought she would understand the difference between the old wallpaper and the new wallpaper- she doesn't

I can remember one Christmas we gave DD some wall stickers for her room- pretty castles, ponies, birds etc. One morning we woke up to find they had decided to stick them on the walls themselves, some were scrunched up, and they were wonky. My heart sank. We managed to peel and restick but some didn't stick properly, we had to throw some away. Now she still has these stickers and some are still half peeling off the wall!

Kids were tearing round the house while I made dinner until there was a crash...my son shouting "the radiator's fell off the bathroom wall!". Thinking he was joking I just carried on chopping veg until a hysterical cry made me realise he wasn't. I dashed upstairs to find him with his back to the radiator trying to keep it against the wall...
Apparently it was his little sister's fault as she was wearing her 1D leggings and he was trying to get away from her as he's not a fan...he'd ran into the bathroom to escape and 'accidently' sat on the radiator.
Luckily my neighbour is a gas engineer who came and safely removed radiator so my son could move . Was quite annoyed as had only just cancelled insurance which would have covered repair so had to pay neighbour to sort out for me
Kids were 9 & 5 at the time.

When I was pregnant with my second baby,i was really tired,mostly exhausted everyday.One Saturday afternoon,i left my then 18month old son in care of my husband and went upstairs for a little lie down.To my total amazement,after returning to my living room,my husband was deep asleep on the sofa whilst my lovely ,angelic toddler son got creative.Somehow he managed to unscrew caps of all my nail varnishes and got to the walls,sofa and furniture.Huge leaks all over the carpet as well,in shades of crimson,glitter pink,violet and so on!Imagine how cross I was on my DH :))

My son, about 2 at the time, rammed every crevice and hole in the Playstation with Play Doh!

DD must have been 2 which she decided to do finger painting - not only on the walls and carpet - but using Sudacrem!!

My mum bought my 1 year old son a plastic tool kit knowing he would be delighted. He was, and repaid her by immediately smashing the door on her glass stereo cupboard with the hammer. Luckily she was able to laugh about it but we were a bit more careful when we let him play with it again, this time outside in the shed!

When my daughter at 5 decided that all the stickers she had got for christmas was a great way to decorate my living room wall, but when she realised that they came off easily aswell decided that glue out of one of her art boxes would make them stay, and stay they did or when they did come off the wallpaper would come off too! one could say it was time to redecorate after that.

At about three months old, Tiny Human (now 11 months) decided to do some postmodern wall decorating...

We used to change his nappy on the dining room table, facing away from the wall and giant map behind him. Mid-nappy change, he unleashed what I can only describe as an avalanche of crap. Unfortunately, it ricocheted off the dining room chairs and splattered onto the wall behind him - about seven feet high.

We were so busy focusing on the ruined carpet/chairs/table/coffee table that we didn't notice until we had cleaned up everything else and made dinner.

We joked that it was a sign of how he doesn't think much of the Pacific Ocean - which beared the majority of the spray.

Still slightly traumastised. Babies, eh? :(

My 3 year old pushed the toilet rim block into the toilet and flushed the chain unbeknownst to me, it got stuck, the toilet kept blocking, water kept rising, tried all kinds to sort it out obviously not knowing what the problem was, it was rising up to the point of nearly overflowing I had to ring someone to sort it out, who came and took a section of the pipe out outside which then sprayed a weeks worth of shit from a family of 4 all over him and our back yard and the neighbours car and dislodge the rim block
Poor bloke, I was mortified.
Worse still he then came in my house to sort payment our covered in it.
£80 that cost me. Little sod. Safe to say I use those gel disks now.

4 y.o. DS informed me 2 y.o. DD had left the tap on. "I'll be there in a moment."
"But she's left the tap on."
"I'll be there in a tick."
"But Mummy, she's left the tap on," from an increasingly agitated and not particularly ecologically aware DS.

I wandered into the bathroom slightly baffled to discover the part he hadn't articulated was that she had moved the tap from over the basin to over the floor also......

I have 9 children and over the last 15 years we have had our fair share of mishaps. When the first 5 were little I was under the mistaken impression that bean bags were a good idea. I got a rude awakening one morning when I was greeted with what looked like a snow storm of polystyrene balls everywhere and coming from the living room. The boys had jumped off a cupboard onto one bag and it had exploded sending the contents everywhere, it looked such fun that they did it again to a second one, before realizing that they could just undo the zips on the other 2! It took hours to clean up and attempt to put all the polystyrene balls back into the the 2 remaining bags & I sewed the zip handles down so they couldn't be opened again. We were finding polystyrene balls for months years!

We've also had our fair share of "art work" on walls. The funniest was when my eldest 2 were little. DS1, Finley was 4 and DS2, Alex was 2 and we found a giant stick man on the wall of the toilet and "ALEX" written in big letters next to it. Ds1 insisted it wasn't him because it had Alex's name next to it, forgetting that Alex couldn't even write!

We also learned to be very wary any time the kids went quiet as it usually spelled trouble! We put a lock on the kitchen door to use at night after we had a succession of a sea of pasta on the kitchen floor, a sea of rice, a sea of flour and finally a sea of infant formula powder! The flour was dreadful and got everywhere, but the infant formula was the worst as it went nasty and sticky and very hard to scrub it off!

My 2yo removed his dirty nappy & redecorated his room with its contents. Initially I was relieved it was fairly solid, although that did lend itself to use as a crayon, but then I realised it was smooshed into most of the duplo. Ridiculously difficult to remove. I put it all on to soak & poor DH spent ages leaning over the bath with a cocktail stick picking it all out.

I'm really hoping that will forever be our "worst thing they did" story.

My dd has never been a scribbler so why oh why when she was 5years old did she write(very neatly)pooh on my newly painted lounge wall, and right in the middle?!!

Watered the TV 'to make it bigger'.

That had me in stitches

My daughter found a box of panty liners and managed to stick a whole pack all over her bedroom walls whilst I was in the shower, she thought it made her walls lovely and soft and comfy 😁

My dd loves to draw on walls floor everywhere but the paper!!