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

[AngelieMumsnet]

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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2 little girls singing let it go in the play room. I was listening thinking how sweet they sounded dancing and singing ....
And throwing flour around as they danced. a full bag.

My DB and I painted my DM living room in black gloss paint, including the carpet, the TV, the walls and the sofa whilst she had passed out (poorly!) upstairs. The smell brought her round though so I guess she should thank us really!

I put the DDs to bed (3&5 at the time) to bed at 7 but they kept popping back up till 9 when I presumed they finally went to sleep. Little did I know that they didn't go to sleep and I was greeted with pen all over the walls and their faces and bodies with the 3 yr old exclaiming 'she even coloured in my nose!

Both of my kids had 'one moment' each - my son crayoned all over our new laminate flooring and my daughter used an ink pad & stamp all over her new bedding. No idea why with either of them - both times, came from nowhere.

The time where ds and the boy from across the road (both aged about 4 or 5 at the time) had been playing quietly upstairs in his room.......

He came downstairs covered in paint. They'd got the (liquid) poster paints out and had soaked through the wallpaper roll that we had given him for painting on and all the way through the IKEA rug and onto the wooden floor. The paint was ingrained in his trainers - to this day I don't understand how he didn't manage to get paint on the carpet as he walked downstairs. There is still a painted handprint on the upstairs bathroom door (10 years later ).

The friend got bundled home quickly to get stripped and washed, while the same was done to ds. His trainers had to go into the washing machine. The IKEA rug, after much scrubbing, recovered remarkably well. You can only really see the staining on the underneath.

Morale of the story: never trust quiet 5 year olds!

Oh, we've had ripped off wallpaper, drawn on kitchen cupboards, and my personal favourite, hundreds of tiny stickers all over the bedroom furniture and door. Beloved DD1 sneaked them into her room and hid them under her mattress, then waited for bedtime before unleashing them in all their glory! Now aged 7, she isn't quite as enamoured with the Night Garden and Waybuloo stickers all over her door and drawers...

I've had sudocrem and vasaline smeared over carpets before, a nightmare to get removed.

I have a budding artist in the making.

I just redecorated my hallway this week after DD (2yo) had drawn all over the walls.

DP left her alone for two minutes apparently and the little tyke had ripped off some of the wallpaper and drawn all over the paper and woodwork with blue marker pen.

I have decided I am not redecorating again until she leaves home.

Writing on the walls here. She actually wrote her sister's name to divert the blame. It might have worked apart from the fact her sister was too young to write at the time.

There were a couple of scratches on my 6yos fairly recently painted wall. She helpfully decided to cover them up with nail varnish. And then got carried away and now had 3 x A4 sized nail varnish monstrosities on her wall. Still, at least she picked a similar shade to the wall. Similar, mind, not exact. How it all came out of 1 bottle of nail varnish, I don't know! And now I don't know how to get it off before I repaint the whole room!

drew cartoons on the wall with felt tip pen .grrrrr!

I sat my toddler out in the garden to paint on a big piece of card last summer and when I popped my head round from the kitchen he'd painted the patio slabs and his arms and face and a little bit on the outside of our house. Pretty much everywhere except the card, but at least it was outdoors! (I'm sure our slabs still have a multicolour tinge a year later).

He also thinks the TV is a swipe screen like the iPad, so despite me telling him over and over that swiping doesnt work, there are constant grubby streak marks across it.

When I was 6 and my brother was 3, my mum was on the phone in the other room.

My brother thought it would be a good idea to play with the hob. The kitchen curtains set alight.

I remember my mum saying to her friend 'I'm going to have to go.... The kitchen is on fire!!!!'

My young daughter sat on the small radiator next to her cousins who were playing. Somehow she managed to break it and water leaked everywhere ... she was in our bedroom upstairs! Our carpet was soaked and basically the whole ceiling of our living room had water marks ... We had to have it treated and re-decorated.

Sudocrem spread all over the sofa cushions by my little one and they looked surprised when I asked who did it and shook their head no it wasn't me, despite having the evidence all over their tiny hands.

While I was talking on the phone in the kitchen my boys took all of their clothes off (standard) and did the "willy dance" (don't ask) on the window sill of my living room. One of my neighbours rang the doorbell to alert me to their antics!

DS was painting on his new easel in the kitchen, when the door bell rang . I opened the door and glanced backward to see DS bending down and painting the new white flooring with the red paint on his brush, took me weeks to get the stain out.

" Cream carpet on the stairs are you mad"? The man in the shop says. It'll be fine I say the children know not to go upstairs with their shoes on. Hmm but they also don't know how to get to the bathroom quickly enough when about to vomit! Vomit after eating tomato soup doesn't come out of a cream carpet does it! Listen to man in shop next time.

Wow some of these stories are wild!

Think my worst one was coming downstairs of a pair of 5/6 year olds having breakfast.... Rice krispies ALL over the living room floor. I think they must have been inspired by the toy Hoover which has polystyrene balls you sprinkle on the floor and then Hoover up..

Noticed my two year old was quiet so went into the lounge to investigate only to find him just finishing rubbing a whole babybel into the sofa!

DS (From the living room where I'd left him so I could get lunch ready) Mummy, the TV's stopped working...
Me - Oh dear, not again, never mind, it's nearly lunch-time, come and wash your hands...
When I went in later there was a massive pool of water seeping around it. Apparently he'd sneezed and snot had flown onto the screen so he'd used the water on his cup to try and clean it... EEK!

I momentarily left my 8 month old holding the full calpol syringe thingy ( to encourage her to put it in her mouth). She slammed it down on the floor squirting the medicine all over the ceiling. I had to balance on the sofa arm to wash the ceiling (thank god we live in a bungalow with low ceilings!). I was left with clean paler circles on the ceiling as the rest of the ceiling is a bit grubby from the wood burner.

Youngest DS broke through child gate into kitchen and took oven door to pieces. That is off the oven and separated into metal door parts and glass window. Managed to reassemble it, but glue used to fix glass is made by the same company that makes the glue to stick armor on tanks!

I bought a nice new flat screen tv. This was when they were quite new out and it cost me a good few pound. I'd had it about 3 months, when while I was out one day, my teenage son swapped tv's, put the one from his room in my living room, and took my nice new one upstairs. I kept moaning for him to bring it back down, but he never did. In fact, it's still in his room to this day and he's nearly 22.

Mostly drawing on the walls here. My little boy was so proud too, was quite shocked by mummy's reaction!