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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I recently put my four year old DD to bed and thought all was fine until I heard sounds coming from the bedroom. I opened the door to find she had used a box to stand on and switch the light on and had used a thick marker pen to draw smiley faces on four walls and all over my bedding. I managed to wipe them off the walls, but alas my lovely teal bedding now has several permanent smiley faces on them!

Ds, then 15 months took a coloured sharpie pack of pens to my white bedroom walls.
More recently, I glossed over the wood in the bathroom because I was tired of the wood look and the DC have taken great delight in pulling off the gloss paint on the wooden panels around the bath. One day I will have a nice home.

Just moved into new build flat with cream walls, one year old managed to scribble in red pen all down the hallway, all over the living room walls and the wall next to the kitchen

DCs are twins and when they were 2 I investigated the ominous silence from the living room, having been making lunch in the kitchen.
My darlings were helping peppa pig jump in muddy puddles by dunking said peppa toy into the soil of a large house plant. They managed to cover most of the lounge/dining area! Took me at least an hour of hoovering while they ate lunch!

when my daughter (now 15) was about 5 she got a felt tip pen and on the back of my new cream sofa played the largest game of noughts and crosses you have ever seen. That sofa had to be against a wall for the rest of the time we had it. She also went for a stay at my mum and dads climbed up into a drawer got some scissors cut off her ponytail put scissors back and just carried on as normal. She had long hair it all had to be cut to a short bob.

my little boy decided to smear his ready brek all over my newly decorated wall and it wasn't just a little but either.

My friends kids drew on the wall and all blamed each other and she couldn't get the truth out of them. I came in and loudly admired the impressive masterpiece and the culprit immediately took bashful credit. Busted 😁

My daughter managed to get hold of a pot of Sudocrem and proceeded to smear it over her entire bedroom including the carpet which was only two weeks old!

My DD got muddy outside and stomped through the house with shoes on!

Finding a permanent black marker and using it everywhere on toys, teddies, the walls and table. Still find things with it on now that I cant get off.

My young cousin's son was in the study playing computer games, or so we thought. When we went to check up on him we found that he had been trying to figure out how the window worked & had managed to take out the whole window unit.

Leaving them sitting nicely at the table with their cut out pieces of potato doing some lovely printing - We had said we would make our own wallpaper - My DC's decided that it would be quicker and easier to print them straight onto the wall!!!!!!!

My son was given a science kit and instructed to only use it with me. Unknown to me he got our camping stove out of the garage and wearing safety goggles set too heating a test tube with chemicals - we now have a large brown stain on a beautiful cream carpet. It could have been much worse so I'm not complaining

My youngest once got the sudocrem from her changing bag and smeared it everywhere. All over herself, carpet... What a nightmare

My childrenn have done many things over the years in the house which 'wasn't their fault' always blaming the other sibling. The latest and I have only found this out days ago, happened three yeas ago play fighting teenagers broke a stair spindle then decided to try 'fix it' with superglue and paint over it. I haven't noticed all these years but after telling me I spotted it straight away!

Just walking around the house with the squits, leaking as they went!

My baby is only 17 weeks but he did projectile vomit on the tile floor whilst I was burping him. His dad then walked in and slipped on it which ended up with him in hospital with a broken arm. We all laugh about this now but I don't think he found it funny at the time.

Cracked eggs all over the kitchen arghhhhhhh

I cannot think of anything except for drawing on a car seat.

A long time ago, hiding my credit cards. I had just cancelled them all when I found the hiding place!

Spilled blackcurrent juice all over the carpet and then thought it would erase his bad deed if he poured a box full of washing powder on it. I don't know which one was worse to clean

Neither have done bad things in the house (unless my brain is blocking my memories), but I remember visiting a large clothes shop locally. My dear son vanished in seconds (as they can), and we even had the store detective running up and down the street ... before finding that the little devil was hiding in the middle of a circular rack of clothes ... grinning!

My little one was kindly helping me load the washing machine one afternoon. When I emptied it, however, I happened to find my very soggy iphone.

I am incredibly phobic of people being physically ill. I've been lucky that my now 12 year old daughter has never been a sickly child but about a year ago she was sleeping in my bed and was very, very ill just after midnight. I have never been prouder than dealing with it - albeit in a real state! I sprayed a scarf with perfume and wrapped it around my head and put everything in the wheelie bin, all the time my daughter, who was now in the bathroom being ill and shouting "I'm sorry Mummy".

It was back when we'd just got married and our son was about 14 months old. We had so little cash it wasn't true but we'd splashed out on a gorgeous pale green fabric sofa for our newly decorated living room. I swear I walked out of the room for 2 minutes in which time lil kid has found a red Crayola crayon and scribbled all over it. Red. Wax. Crayon.