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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They got hold of a marker, and draw 'tattoos' on each other. The paintwork where they had leaned with dirty hands I could wash off and cover up, but the tattoos stayed on their skin for a whole school week !!!!!

My son riding his scooter in the house slammed into my brand new kitchen cupboards and took a chunk of the wood out!

One Christmas Eve, my friend and I were making mince pies with our children, my 3 year old son was starting to go to the toilet on his own and I had been enforcing how important it was to wash hands. An hour went by from said toilet visit when I left the kitchen and on entering the living room water was pouring through the ceiling, next the electrics all went out. He had ran the bath and the sink they both overflowed for an hour, we ended up having to pull the ceiling down have the room replastered and painted and the electrics re done. Must say the insurance company were brilliant.

they aren't old enough yet

DS1 was sooo sweet with his little cooker and teaset. We had lovely little games of preparing imaginary food for ourselves and his bears. One day I was warming up my own oven to make the evening meal when the most horrific chemical smell swam through the entire house. He'd put all his plastic dishes inside the oven, and the shelves and oven floor were all coated in melted red plastic. Delicious.

Muddy boots vs brand new cream carpet

none yet but i remember my sister using her new fingerpaints to do some decorating in the living room when i was younger!

My daughter was 5 at the time and likes art and one day decided to decorate my car! Only problem was it was with a small stone! Lines and flowers the whole way round the car! Luckily we fixed most with one of the infill pens

Grace decided to become an artist on the brand new wooden floor with felt tip marker pens!

thatwould: (shouts for DS1 and DS2) What are you two doing?
DS1: We're in the kitchen.
thatwould: Yeah, I asked what you were doing?!
[pause]
DS1: Well 'I'm' not drawing on your walls!*
DS2: ....
thatwould: !

• yes, plural

My daughter heavily sudocremed peppa pig, who was on the tv at the time, many baby wipes were needed to remove...

I had just had my eldest son and was busy with him and my daughter, 2, was left to her own devices for a very short period of time. However, she had managed to reach a jar of jam, opened it (no idea how) and drew pictures with it on the newly decorated hall walls. She came and told me she had drawn her little brother a lovely picture. Grrrr!

everything seems funny at the time and yet nothing does afterwards

Not at my house, but my sister's (so worse!) Thought DD was asleep. She then appeared with red all over her tummy. Once I'd reassured myself it wasn't blood, found that she's got hold of a red permanent marker... The bed sheet had been decorated as well as her pyjamas, she'd drawn a picture of Grandad on a box, and put stripes on her teddy ('he's a zebra now!') Amazingly we have been allowed to visit again!

make up is a repeat offender in my house. My twin daughters find it no matter where i put it and love to make each other up with face powder, blusher etc. Last Monday though was the worst ever where they got hold of my eyeliner and drew what looked like a huge dragon on my living room cream painted wall. I ended up somehow being in the wrong by being firmly told it was a dog. Scrubbed and scrubbed but a faint line could still be seen in the shape so had to repaint the living room.

My son has decorated the lounge & hallway walls with wax crayons - a joy to try & remove! The hallway art currently remains in situ until we get around to repainting! I'm thinking of framing it - may as well embrace it & create a feature! :D

I can't think of anything too awful my own children have done but I have a couple from when my brother and I were little.

My mum and dad ate dinner in the living room and my brother and I ate at the kitchen table. My mum was a really shit cook so every night we hid our dinner in a big cupboard in the kitchen that my Dad kept paint and stuff in (wasn't used very often). This went on for months until the food 'mountain' was discovered. I can still remember how it looked and the smell! We got a bit smarter after that and our pal next door would stand outside the kitchen window and we'd pass it out to her.

My brother and I shared a room. When the film 'Jaws' came out, my dad would do the scary 'doo doo' noise like the cello bit in Jaws when it was about to get someone, whenever my brother or I went up the stairs to go to the toilet or to bed. As a result, we were so terrified, we pissed in a corner of our bedroom for weeks when we needed to go in the night. I don't know why we thought Jaws was going to get us up the stairs in a first floor flat! I haven't told my own DC this but weirdly, my DS has recurring nightmares about sharks with legs chasing him!

My DS1 decided to clean the patio doors with a stone he'd picked up leaving the glass covered in large circuar scratches, My husband went beserk!!

Chewing our faux leather sofa until bits come off, worse than a puppy!

My son decided to draw all over his body one day when I was cooking his dinner. Green pen (his favourite colour) was everywhere on his body & I mean everywhere! It was too funny to get mad though, we had a good laugh about it & I have the pictures to use as evidence when he's older ha ha

DD3 has used permanent marker to draw smiley faces on every door in the house .

One of mine decided to colour in whole of the top of the coffee table with green felt pen. I scrubbed it all off, but it's never really lost it's green tinge - and you know, I'd not have it any other way now. He's all grown up now and at uni ....

My toddler last week got hold of a black permanent marker in our bedroom and in the 2 secs it took me to get to her to get it off her she managed to scrawl all over our duvet cover, thankfully it wasn't the new set which was in the wash at the time!

I was making Toad in the Hole in the kitchen one day while DS (3) was playing with his Brio in the front room. I clearly wasn't paying adequate attention because when I returned to the front room I found that he'd tiptoed into the kitchen behind my back, half-inched the flour packet and poured half of it all over the train track on the floor. I stared in horror, ready to explode and he looked up at me innocently and said "It's Christmas for trains!" And at that I realised that Tesco Value flour is cheap, and can be hoovered up from wooden floorboards quite effectively, and I gave him a big hug.