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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My daugther likes to hide herself behind the curtains and behind the doors of her wadrobe....

If my son doesn't want to sleep in his own room he can often be found under my bed with his duvet, he sometimes does this if he wakes in middle of the night too!

My son likes to hide in the cupboard under stairs .

When my eldest, now 17, was about 2, he was absolutely mad on Thomas the Tank Engine, and had a big plastic playset with track, trains, station etc. One day I was at work and rang home, but my husband didn't answer. I kept ringing but still no answer. When I got home he said he'd heard the phone ringing but couldn't find it anywhere. When I was tidying up the Thomas stuff the next day, I found the phone, inside the station, "coupled up" to a carriage :)
The same child, when we were getting work done in our bedroom and had the carpet lifted up, took my purse and "posted" every single coin down between the floorboards. I've often joked that if sometime in the future we have to take the floor up, we'll be rich. Shame they were all £1 coins which are going out of circulation this year.... I'm sure there was about £20 down there! ;)

Behind the sofa, in the shed, in the laundry basket, even once demanding to take a nap in the bath!

Dd2 likes to curl up under our bed. I woke up in the middle of the night once and checked in on the kids before going back to bed, only to discover she was missing from her bed! I looked in all the rooms upstairs and downstairs, woke up dh and we checked all the doors and windows were locked trying not to freak out. Just when I was ready to phone the police and say my little girl was missing, we heard this tiny rustling noise from under our bed. When I peaked under, she was curled up fast asleep!
I didn't manage to go back to sleep that night too high on adrenaline.

ooh none so far........ fingers crossed that lasts

We went through a stage of losing lots of things around the house. One day a guest sat down and mentioned that our cushions were quite lumpy. DS had been unzipping them, putting things inside and then zipping them back up. We've not told him he's been rumbled or he'll just find somewhere else equally secret to hide things.

He also likes to hide in bushes. He walks backwards into the bush until he's completely hidden by the leaves. He will wait there silently and patiently too so we have to watch him when we play hide and seek as we might actually never be able to find him.

DD loves our dog and will often be found laying on the dogs bed... However when we play hide and seek the dog always alerts us to where she is hiding as he follows wherever she goes. :)

I have a storage foot stool it is quite big and they hide in there

My great niece is so funny when we play hide & seek. Whenever I've hidden she always hides in the same place I did when it's her turn & she seems to think that if she can't see us, we can't see her so quite often just lies under the covers in bed

I am a nail technician and work from home so my daughter decided to hide one of my products without me noticing. However as she was only 2 years old when i asked her where it was i think she had forgotten. Unfortunately i couldn't carry on the treatment and lost a client plus money. However 2 days later i found out my little monkeys hiding place - in a draw in the lounge haha.

Well... You know when they are just coming towards toilet training and are starting to take an interest in what's in their nappies? My second child obviously felt somewhat uncomfortable with the contents of his and so would remove his poo and hide it! He'd go somewhere private when he needed to go, so we wouldn't always be aware he'd "been" and then we'd find little poos in strange places. The funniest two were in the driver's window of his toy train and posted out through the letterbox! Luckily it was me who found that one, having returned from the supermarket to find a poo on the doorstep! Happy days...

My favourite hide 'n' seek moment with DD was when she told me "Mummy I'll hide downstairs and you go and look upstairs" If I remember rightly I sneaked off for five minutes peace with my kindle, hehe.

She once put her favourite most treasured happyland people tucked inside the end of her duvet. Couldn't tell me where they were. I was quite proud of myself when I finally guessed where they were.

DD loved to hide herself in the built in wardrobe in her bedroom.

when it went quiet, and I saw crayon on the bathroom wall, I knew........ so did he, it was not the first time. I called his name.....no answer. I kept still listening for breathing, rustling .... nothing, i looked in every room, every cupboard I even sent the dog 'on the hunt' after minutes, I heard movement,
he was stood up inside one of my husbands suit jackets, with his feet in his shoes in the wardrobe, totally camouflaged ! I cuddled him in relief, he cleaned the crayon off the bathroom wall himself, and all was forgotten (those 15 minutes hunting seemed like hours)

My son always used to just put his head under a cushion, under the old belief of "well, if I can't see you, you can't see me..."

Under the sofa, which I would not have believed possible until she disappeared for half an hour

There's a small gap between my couch and the wall in the corner of the room, my daughter always finds it funny to hide there when I need her for something. She always hides in the same spot though, she's rubbish! haha

My DDs and DS favourite hiding places are behind the books on the bookshelves they must forget I have to clean the dust on the books and shelves so I always find the money or the school letter they don't want me to see.

My children tend to hide in wardrobes....not too happy when it's mine and my clothes get all squashed!
When younger if they were hiding and I had that moment of worry I found shouting 'do you want some chocolate?' made them come out!

Not exactly weird or wonderful but oh my goodness it scared the life out of me. DD decided to hide behind the kitchen door. I left the room for 2 minutes and came in and could not see her so I shouted her. Nothing, not a peep. I went into the living room and shouted her again. Nothing. This went on for a few minutes and I really began to panic so I check the back and front gardens and still no sign of her. Totally freaking out I called her again and she jumped out from behind the door and shouted 'Haha I tricked you'.

The current favourite hiding place is behind the (temporary) clothes rack in the living room. In fact, the best piece of hiding ever was when our little one actually went into and 'wore' an over-size coat, originally placed on the rack to dry, completely camouflaging himself. He probably wouldn't have been found out if not for the giggling.

My son had a cupboard in his bedroom that he used as a kind of den, but truly I don't think you can beat a good cardboard box!