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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My husband put some old Castrol car oil containers down the side of the back garden near the gate. One day my 2yr old DS came across them and tipped one upside down. He then stepped in the thick black oil and decided he had had enough and so wanted to come back inside the house. I had oil footsteps from back garden straight into the dining room. I quickly realised what he had done and managed to stop him from going further. My husband was really cross. Anyway we did managed to get the oil removed with Vanish thank god. So the moral of this story is "husband to be more careful where he puts things"

DD made some lovely Nutella handprints on a freshly painted pale yellow wall.

There was another brown substance walked into a rug. Least said the better.

DS1 poured fabric conditioner all over the floor and jumped in it, saying 'Muddy puddles! Muddy puddles!' (Bloody Peppa Pig)

My 3 year old son Logan had a toy hammer that he loved to use for pretend DIY only when we were busy in the kitchen one day he used it destroy quite a sizeable section of plastered wall. Needless to say we now need to redecorate and he no longer has a toy hammer. He thought he was helping little darling, going to be a story we remind him of when he's older.

This was something I did as a kid.
It was Boxing Day and we had all eaten a big dinner and I volunteered to do desert. It was to be cold leftover Christmas pudding with some hot custard.
First of all I microwaved the custard and then put the Christmas pudding in the microwave, as I did so the phone rang and I went to answer it.
As I was chatting away on the phone I heard a loud bang from the kitchen.
I had mistakenly pushed the 1 hour button and left the pudding cooking whilst I nattered away.
The kitchen was fast filling with a blackish-yellow smoke which got worse when I opened the microwave door, just then the sirens of a fire engine roared past (not for my house, thank God) I opened the back door and windows and the smoke poured out.
A few minuted later I inspected the leftover Christmas pudding in the microwave, it was now a small black lump, similar to a piece of coal.
Needless to say I never volunteered to make desert ever again.

DD decided that her paint station was not a big enough canvas for her artistic talents, luckily painted walls are easier to clean / recover... :)

my teenage boys decided to make fajitas when I had popped out. I cannot forget the trail of destruction I found in my (usually) tidy Kitchen. That said they did enjoy eating them all!!

DC1 at 2yrs decided to get up early and spread flour all over my kitchen then to add insult to injury got a colander which he thought was a pan and decided to throw litre upon litre of water from a running tap. Our carpets had to be taken up and replaced as it set like glue. It took my husband and I nearly 2 days to clean the kitchen from floor to ceiling. 😱

My DS decided to decorate the cat with his bowl of tomato soup when he was 4 :-0 The cat was not best happy and ran through the living room and then upstairs to get away - leaving a trail of tomato soup on all the carpets has he did so :-0

My son decided to extend his colouring onto a newly painted wall in the hall

Funnily enough, my then 2.5 year old DS discovered the joy of scribbling all over walls immediately after I'd painted his bedroom in beautiful new Valspar paint! I was so, so cross but I can laugh about it now. The wall he scribbled all over has textured wallpaper, so it was much trickier to remove all the pencil without taking half the paper off too. Glad I had a tiny bit of paint left.

DS1 was about 14m old when he managed to remove his dirty nappy in his cot, and redecorated the cot, bedding, walls and carpet... the smell when I opened the door was horrific! I opened the window but still had to keep going out and gasp for air before going back in and cleaning again. I redecorated in the end as I just couldn't get the smell out.

My DD tap-danced round the kitchen for a considerable time in her new shoes (not tap shoes!). They left black marks all over the floor that took hours to scrub off.

We had a large beanbag in the kids bedroom, one bankholiday the eldest daughter (6) came down full of beans and really giddy shouting its snowing its snowing, confused we looked out the window-no snow, so we told her it wasn't she said yes it is in our bedroom! We went up to the attic to see the floor covered In the white polystyrene ball filling of the beanbag, took us hours to clean tHem all up and we still kept finding the odd one or two months later

My daughter decided to get creative with some pens and the white leather couch.. she then covered it with the throw so we didn't see it!

baking with kids is always a recipe for mess but when my daughter was 4, I turned my back for a second and she tipped the entire bowl of cake mix over herself, the cabinets, the floor - it seemed to get everywhere. We had previously made meringues and had jokingly held the bowl upside down to see if they were ready so she thought it worked the same with cake mix!

Mother-in-law baby-sat and put a scone in the microwave for 5 minutes - we arrived home to find the kitchen in flames!

My son once painted the walls with my nail varnish. That was a night mare to clean up :)

A work of art in pen on a newly painted cream wall.

Thankfully this happened at his mum's house, not my house, but when my stepson was 6 he found the key to the shed, opened it, got out an electric saw which he then powered up and cut a hole in the garden hedge! To top it all off their dog then escaped through the hole.

Sudocrem.
TV speakers (back in the days when TVs had speakers on the front)
It never came out, even after painstaking work with a dressmaking pin.

My son thought that his room was boring so he decided coloured in the patterns on his wall paper

no major mishaps from DCs yet fingers crossed. DD did give her dolls felt pen makeovers. It is DH of mine who broke our shed window while practising his golf chipping

I spent a fortune decorating dds bedroom when she was 14, in luring the red wall she had asked for
I returned home one day to find she had moved all of her belongings nto the spare room, in luding her bed and furnitite because she said her room was haunted and she couldn't sleep
The rows that entailed were quite horrific but she did have to move it all back again
And I had to redecorate her room

Watch out for the deadly sudocrem! Yep, all over him, the walls, furniture... It lives on a high shelf now!

When DS was a baby I was making lunch while he had some no-nappy time playing happily in his bedroom. I came upstairs to get him to find that he had pooed and smeared it everywhere: the carpet, the walls, the furniture, inbetween the bars of the baby gate, the lot. It was absolutely disgusting but he was thrilled with himself