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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we recently got a new puppy and i had left my lg (2) in her bedroom with the puppy for literally one minute, came back the room was trashed so i asked lg 'what happened?' her reply was 'kenny (the dog) happened!!'

My DD had just finished potty training and was trying to be independent and go to the 'big girls' toilet on her own, I was just chatting with my husband and realised she had been gone a little longer than normal, we shouted upstairs and asked if she was ok, she replied 'yes, I'm just cleaning', confused as to what she would be cleaning my husband went up and seconds later I got a shout to come up, I ran upstairs wondering why I would be needed, when I should be greeted with my lovely DD smearing her own number two all over the toilet seat, the lid and handle!!! She had managed to get some on the seat and instead of telling us she'd decided to 'clean' it herself !!!!

I let my two eldest help me strip the wallpaper in a house we were rennovating. They were about 4 and 2 at the time.

It was more of a time wasting exercise than practical help but it was fun. I spent the next few evenings finishing off the job when they were in bed.

My parents took the DC out for a long day at the weekend to allow me to get the new paper on the wall.

My mum gave the DC a little lecture at bedtime about allowing mummy a lie in in the morning as I'd been working hard. DC2 did his usual wake up several times in the night and i was so shattered i didn't hear DS1 go down stairs. When I woke with a start realising i'd overslept and rushed downstairs DS1 proudly told me how he'd finished stripping the wallpaper from one wall for me and it had come off much easier than before as whole strips.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I painted the wall after that.

I have come home from work on many occasions and my husband will have started a new project in one of our rooms. One day I came home and my husband had removed and disposed of our breakfast bar. His response was that we were having a new kitchen so he was going to start now. We weren't due to have our new kitchen for another 9 months!

No major disasters, however, I did find my sons name written in crayon on one of the blades of his ceiling fan. I have no idea how he accomplished that!

He pulled a whole set of curtains down on his head when left alone for a second!

Just endless scribblings on walls, bed posts, tables, doors. And blu tac can be found in the oddest places.

DS2 (aged 2 and a half) scribbled on the wall. When I asked who had done it DS2's immediate answer was I was my brother when I did it .

We moved house last year and we had been painting the bedrooms. Ours is beautiful grey and white and my sons is bright red and blue. On my lovely crisp, clean fresh white wall in the bedroom is a red handprint! It was so funny, so we decided to keep it there x

My daughter drew over my newly wallpapered wall with a " wipeable" pen

A typical day in my house!

Emptied all my kitchen cupboards and drawers and splashed fairy liquid on everything to "wash" it!

My little one snuck a red sock into the whites...disaster

We had some springs fitted on our internal doors so they didnt slam but my daughter loved these as a toddler and managed to pull ALL of them off. We even caught her on camera doing it!

One day while I was in the kitchen doing the washing up I realised that my son (2yrs at the time) was suspiciously quiet. Last I knew he was watching Thomas the tank engine on the sofa. I went to investigate and to my horror he'd gone and got the toilet roll from the bathroom and unrolled it all over the living room! The worst part was that it was our very last roll as I'd forgotten to buy it when I went shopping earlier that day. I had to salvage what I could of the unravelled and ripped up loo roll!

Yesterday while I was getting ready for a wedding, I could hear some chaos downstairs. When I went down to check it out I discovered that my 3 year old had pulled all my cookbooks off the shelf onto the floor, somehow managed to reach the eggs and placed two (unbroken!) in the middle of the kitchen floor, emptied a half eaten family sized bag of cheesy Doritos onto my living room carpet (leaving an orange tinge to the carpet and was running around with my hand held hoover shouting "Mummy I made a mess!". He is a real monkey my eldest son!

My DS decided to draw nice lines all up our banister rail .... in black biro!! Oh and then there was the time he decided to make himself some coco pops, and just pretty much emptied the lot over the kitchen floor when I was in the lounge on the phone, not to mention the time he opened the door to the parcel delivery guy while I was in the shower, cue him shouting mummy, me panicking and getting out the shower (not having heard the door), with not much on, only to find a very shocked guy at the bottom of the stairs...cringe!!

My daughter is potty training and I saw her run into the loo to use the potty, which was fine, then I heard her go back to where she was playing, and I could her funny noises, I went to check and she had done some wee on the floor and was jumping in it, when I shouted what are you doing? she got scared and fell over, she went straight in the shower!

Managed to get nail varnish open and painted all her lovely new chest of drawers, I was so gutted, she also managed to spill this bright red nail varnish over her new rug and carpet, hadn't long decorated!!!

We have gone through about four paint jobs on my little boys room,he's quite creative and varies his designs and he's always delighted in showing us his next masterpiece!!!! We have tried to convince him to stop doing it and removed his pencils for his reach so fingers crossed that will be the end of it. On the bright side we may a a future Banksy in the making 😀

While I was at work, My husband decided to chop down our Cherry Tree in our garden and make a garden table and stools out of the stumps!

I was mortified as our Cherry Tree was amazing and got so many Cherries from it but my husband thought he was some sort of DIY King ha-ha!

Its sat in our garden still… No ones used it but him and I don’t think he even likes sitting on the stumps as looks so uncomfy but does to make a point that chopping our beloved Cherry Tree was a great idea.

Still thinking of a good payback… Might turn his beloved football kits into a nice picnic rug so he can enjoy that too in the summer ha-ha

years ago we had a very nasty smell in the bedroom, we couldn't track it down, it steadily got worse, it drove us nuts, in the end we agreed to spend a whole Saturday on stripping the room until we found it. we emptied all the wardrobes, under the bed storage, drawers the lot. The last place we looked was a bedside cabinet that the door had stuck fast and we hadn't been able to open in for years, it was empty so it didn't really matter. However it was the very last place this smell could have been coming from, so we broke it open and inside was a bowl of mud with sprouts, peas, twigs and water. Our DD had made a "creation" months before, somehow opened the cabinet door and put the "creation" in a safe place, but then forgot all about it!

Our son wrote his name in biro on our mattress and then said it wasn't him

I've had a few of these moments with my daughter, one time that sticks out is when she was around 3.1/2, she managed to get her hands on some nail polish and decided to give her doll and her new furniture some lovely purple highlights.🙈

Wanted to make the bathroom into a paddling pool, so put towels by gap under door, put plug in sink and then turned tap's on and let it overflow onto floor and were happily splashing about until water started pouring through lounge ceiling, which is when I noticed! Should have known they were being too quiet upstairs!