Tell the team behind the NEW Smurfs movie about your DC's weird and wonderful hiding places - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

[AmeliaMumsnet]

To celebrate the launch of the latest Smurfs film, Smurfs: The Lost Village, in cinemas March 31, we'd like to hear all about your kids’ favourite hiding places. What are the oddest places things have been lost and found in your house? Please share your stories in the thread below.

Here’s what Smurfs has to say about their latest film: “In this all-new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy, and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest, to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. It’s a Smurftastic adventure!”

So, which weird and wonderful places have your DC picked out as hiding spots? Perhaps they've lost a treasured possession after putting it somewhere for "safe keeping"? Or have you found 'hidden' snacks in the crack between their bed and the wall? Toys in the depths of the airing cupboard? Notes from school stuffed in the fridge? (Perhaps you're guilty of some of these yourself!)

Or perhaps you've found your child hiding somewhere unusual - in the dog basket, or in the laundry under a pile of dirty pants and socks? Maybe you discovered they’d turned your favourite geranium bush into a top secret spy headquarters?

Whatever your story, Smurfs would like to hear it so please post it below. Everyone who posts will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Smurfs: The Lost Village will hit UK cinemas March 31, with special preview screenings March 25 and 26.

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw!

MNHQ

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I once came home from work in the early hours of the morning and poked my head in to check on the kids as I always did. 2 year old DD wasn't in her bed, must have gone in with DH. Nope not in our bed either. Cue a huge panic and she was eventually found fast asleep UNDER our bed!!

lost my asd child. hidden under an armchair in an impossibly small space no more than 8 inches high. behind the airer full of washing... crawled under the bottom rail 6 inches from the floor and popped up at the back, which was against a wall. regularly lost in library... under the seating, under the computer desks, in the inside of shelving units, we know he is somewhere in there... he once disappeared at school pick up... he was at the bottom of the field and camouflaged in grey and green against grey fence and green of the grass...

Lost my LO (5) during a game of hide and seek. After her cousins gave up looking for her, I went searching. I found her whimpering and whining, she'd hidden inside a roll of old carpet which was on the stairs ready for the dump. But the more she wriggled, the tighter the carpet got - she couldn't get out. TOO good a hiding place!

She doesn't like hide and seek anymore!

My DDs like to hide every night before his dad walks in the door..

Sometimes under the duvet in our bed or his bed. Under his sister cot, in the cupboards.
He always find somewhere that his dad won't think of

I was changing the beds and whilst taking the duvet out of ds's (4 years old) covers I found some pictures he'd drawn, a teddy bear (belonging to his Sister) and a ring he had gotten on top of a cupcake. I asked him who the ring was for and he said it was for Mother's day!

DS2 (3) hides in the laundry hamper - he fits perfectly and has been named all time hide and seek champion, after hiding there silently for the first time for 20 minutes, and scaring the life out of us. We were ready to call missing persons.
When DS1 was 5 we had a friend staying from overseas, and she lost her hire car keys in our house. She had left them on the floor by the front door, and they had vanished. After much panicking because she needed to leave to catch her flight home, they were discovered in a shoe in the shoe cupboard. When questioned, DS1 announced he had put them there to 'keep them safe' because keys don't belong on the floor!

DD1 once hid in her sister's wardrobe ready to jump out on her. She waited about 20 minutes before calling her and getting my response "She's gone to the park!"

A London Museum sells water in tiny cardboard boxes and I chose one as part of my DDs packed lunch. (Obviously I'm far too flighty to make my own.) I chose Pom Bears (true) and a cheese sandwich, so for a nod to health chose some cucumber and carrot all cutted up.
Then proudly watched my not yet 2 year old calmly feed each and every crudité into the little cardboard water box, rendering half the lunchbox useless. £8million down the drain.

My kids are not very good at hiding, they do choose good spaces but they have no patience so will just shout from where they are making it easier to find them. Their favourite place to hide is a huge tree in the park where it is so large inside that between the branches there are entire rooms hidden under the tree. Then they get carried away playing hotels in there so forget why they went in there in the first place!

I know this might sound odd but DD2 used to hide DVD's in the DVD player.

We would have four or five empty boxes but the DVD's were nowhere to be found. There would be one playing but all the others were gone.

Eventually the DVD player stopped working. I dismantled it because the drawer wouldn't open and I wanted to retrieve the disc and inside I found 6 DVD's! Incredibly it was still working when it only had 5 in there!!

Every thing ends up under the sofa in this house, drives me mad!

My youngest daughter hid my eldest daughters friends shoe.

Just one shoe. This was my eldests friend who had travelled up from Bristol to Leicester to spend the weekend with her. The friend who only had one pair of shoes with her.

Could we find it? No, nowhere, turned house upside down, nowhere to be seen. Had to send friend back to Bristol with only one shoe - good job I knew her Mum very well.

Two days later I go to put a coat on and find said shoe in the arm of my coat. - now why didn't I think to look there?

Shoe went in post, youngest daughter admitted her role in it and we have never let her forget. She is seven, looks like an angel but is a little devil.

My daughter used to like the curtains as a great hiding place, she never twigged that we could see her from the knees down! My son likes to hide his head underneath the coats hanging over some shelving in our dining room, obviously you can see the rest of his body, but at only 2 years of age he doesn't understand that we can still find him easily!

Their favourite place to hide things is definitely the dogs bed, the amount of times I've found my keys and half their toys there is ridiculous!

There was one holiday we went on when every time we turned around in the chalet our daughter had gone to curl up and hide in the biggest suitcase. I'm sure she found this one of the most interesting parts of the holiday!

this involves lots of chairs, blankets, quilts and sheets and my kids loves o create their own dens in their own place, such as the garden, bedroom, living room, they adore this.

DS2 outdid himself one day by climbing into the storage area under his bed, only his giggles gave him away, eventually!

My boys hid things anywhere and everywhere, usually under their bed or even in the airing cupboard :)

Because I only used to allow my son biscuits at certain times of the day, he used to be a little bit sneaky, getting a handful out of the cupboard and hiding them under the sofa or chair. Unfortunately for him, our dog used to sniff them out so his secret hiding place didn't last very long. :D

My DC empties out his toy box onto the bedroom floor and climb in, not obvious at all with a big pile of toys scatter all over the bedroom floor

In the bath is always my little ones favourite!

The cupboard under the stairs was always the favourite place in our house because it is always very warm in there.

my daughter loves hiding in our laundry basket she will happily sit in there for hours with her books and crayons!

Gran had a large sideboard which was raised off the floor on legs. Using metal trays to hide the inside, he would crawl underneath and stay there happily for ages!