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 boys got hold of their crayons and drew ALL over the TV! now that was fun cleaning up!

Talcum powder and lipstick, caked together and rubbed into my duvet....would it come out in the wash? Would it heck!

Has got to be the day the DD2 got hold of a well known nappy cream and in those 5 seconds had covered nearly the whole sofa as well as herself, it is a total nightmare to remove and I'm sure even a year on her scalp is still protected against rashes!

My little "angel" once covered my bedroom carpet and herself in sudocrem took hours to get out.

Plenty of wall scribbles but by far, Dd 2s adventure with the microwave was the one that caused most damage.

I had a safety gate on the kitchen. She got over it aged 18 months whilst I was in my bedroom folding laundry (in our flat). She had a wooden book which was varnished and she put it in the microwave and shut the door. It was an old style one which immediately switched on. The first I realised was when the hall started filling with white smoke.

I got the kids out, rang 999 and then covered my mouth to run in and flick the wall switch.

The microwave was destroyed, the lovely firemen took it out the back. They had to pump the smoke out the flat and as well as having considerable smoke damage to the kitchen which took bloody weeks to clean, half the worktop had melted.

Literally 2 minutes out of sight. She looked so angelic, the fireman was a bit stunned that she had managed to do it.

Not my dcs, but me.

One xmas at my grans house, having been left to my own devices whilst the adults watched Dallas....I decided that the house wasn't festive enough and liberally sprinkled glitter over the carpets/rugs of every room and the stairs.

Oh the trouble I was in! I have vivid memories of sweeping the stairs by hand, and when she finally moved some years later, there was still glitter in the cracks and crevices of the floor

Finding a pair of scissors and chopping own hair, curtain tiebacks and cat's whiskers and eyebrows before being discovered!

I bought a can of fake tan and left it in my bathroom. One night I woke up to this weird hissing noise so went looking round the house to investigate! I went into my bathroom and my fake tan had exploded everywhere, there was horrible brown foam all over the floor, walls! At first I thought it was sewage!! 3 0 clock in the morning scrubbing the bathroom absolute nightmare! 😆😝

DS has been pretty good, but one unexpected issue was when he had a very soft plastic ball and had been peacefully throwing it against the soft brown painted wall. Turns out it left a greasy kind of mark that hasn't shifted at all, and seems resistant to being painted over as well.

When my eldest was about 2 he decided to help himself to breakfast at 5am. We didn't have a stairgate on his door at the time and he had suddenly just learnt how to open the door. I woke up to some noise.

This is what had happened...!

Mess everywhere!

DD was a handful when younger. She loved helping me out in the kitchen and one day after being allowed to sprinkle icing sugar and cocoa powder over some cakes I'd made, she decided it was so enjoyable she decided to decorate the sofa and living room carpet with them too!

We had just finished decorating our lounge. It had taken weeks of hard slog every night after work due to the decades of wallpaper and old horsehair plaster. The day after we'd finished I was in the kitchen when I got that 'hmm, DS is quiet' panick in my stomach.
He'd stood on the back of the sofa and drawn a huge rainbow all along the wall.
He was soooo chuffed with his work too
He'd done it with wax crayons and even though we painted over it several times, and it always seeped through.

Chocolate cake smeared all over our lovely cream walls. What makes it worse is that we didn't notice it until two days later, so it was all dried on and impossible to clean. Lesson learned!

Like many others, I think it has been 'wall art' graffiti that my DCs have made that caused the most consternation at the time. However we simply decided that we would avoid 'redecorating' until the youngest DD is at least 5! The biggest mess my DCs created was when I was busy completing some work on my computer in the living room. DCs were just in the dining room drawing pictures, or so I thought. After about 10 mins I looked in and found my DDs had emptied 3 bottles of paint over the dining room table and were happy just creating 'art' with their hands and fingers (as it slopped gracefully down the sides). To make it even better, DD2 was prettily dressed in her Sofia the First costume and managed to decorate herself at the same time!!! See pic for proof!!!

The worst was luckily not in my house, but in a friend's. The DCs (about six of them) were playing upstairs, and we were too busy chatting to notice it had all gone a bit quiet....

The girl whose house it was had decided she didn't like the colour of her carpet, so enlisted her friends to paint it purple. It ended up an insurance job.

And DD1 drew all over our cream (thankfully washable) sofa covers. She denied completely that it was her, until I pointed out that she had signed all her drawings.

Both my daughters age 3 and 5 went upstairs and tried to re-create Arendelle from frozen. They managed to get hold of talc (lots of it) and there was 'snow' as they called it everywhere!! Spent ages cleaning it up.

I left my 2 year old son for a few minutes with the door to the garden open, when I returned he had fed the local stray cat with our Sunday joint!

Our tv stopped working just before Christmas and rather than replacing it while we still had presents to get in we decided to bring the tv from upstairs down to make do until after the holidays. It was a little small but made do that is until we were having our lunch one day and 3 year old daughter decided to launch a spoon at the screen. The screen went black and fuzzy and then switched off. Daughter said the tv was too noisy and she was trying to make it stop. So much for saving money. We were 2 tvs down in the space of 2 days!

I made the mistake of buying some goop, it was a Christmas stocking filler. It was a strange type of jelly with glitter in it, my daughter loved it and for the first few days it was fine, but then one day I was doing the dishes in the kitchen when she walked in with a ton of the stuff in her hair. I tried washing it out, but water didn't touch it neither did shampoo. I was contemplating cutting her hair, but she would have had bald patches! In the end I used a combination of rubbing and a nit comb, but never again. Also she managed to get some in the carpet which never fully came out.

My little boy had been 'posting' little plastic dominoes down the back of the gas fire (which we very rarely used) without me realising. One day I said to my husband, 'shall we put the fire on for a change?' we put it on and after a while all this smoke came out the back and the fire was on fire! We had to get the kids out and call the fire brigade. The firemen found all these little scorched dominoes.The gas people had to come out and disconnect the fire. We still haven't been able to afford to get it reconnected and the insurance claim was too complicated. The kids loved sitting in the fire engine though.

When youngest dd was about 18 months she decided the goldfish looked poorly so proceed to try and cover it with sudocreme - I came back in from loading the washing machine to find the water full of white blobs and a tide mark round the top of the tank - it took me hours to clean the tank, the shelf, sofa, walls and her. One whole large tub was emptied .............. Amazingly the fish survived for another couple of years

As for the time she tipped a roller tray of white emulsion paint into the fishtank - well let's just say it was lucky to survive that one too

And no we don't have fish any more!

My darling daughter drew (with permenant marker) all over the fireplace in our new house. We'd only just moved in about 2 months before. Horror!

CMOT paint over the marks with clear nail varnish and then use paint. The nail varnish stops the grease leeching through.

Through the house keys down the toilet

Not to my home but to himself he was maybe 4 and I had him in the bath left him to get his stuff sorted and he managed to get a hold of superglue and stick himself to himself