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

Standard Insight T&Cs apply

My son went through a stage of storing what he called spike-bombs which were conker shells in his wardrobe and drawers they were such a pain as clung to clothing and were so sharp on fingers when pulling out socks and pants from drawers

Child would be behind the curtains...that stopped around nose height so only forehead and eyes were actually hidden!

Items would be inside the play kitchen, life got a whole lot easier when we found that out!

When dd2 was about 7, she caused some consternation by hiding the key to the bathroom. It was a big iron key - perhaps she had been hoping it would take her on a Biff and Chip style adventure? It resurfaced some week later in her schoolbag, as she had taken it into school to show her friends. As you do .

My littlest has only just grown out of the 'If I'm crouched down and positioning myself at a weird angle with my eyes closed, then you can't see me!' stage! And it used to make me laugh every time she would try to hide in the same place, IN the dining chair, and nearly always fall asleep! This is one of many times that I have caught her, even snoring too. x

When DD was a toddler her absolute favourite game was peek a bo, using e peak of a baseball cap. She was convinced that once the cap was pulled down over her eyes she became invisible to us all - cue much "where's DD?", then once she lifted the peak "There she is!" She could play that game for hours!!

my dc discovered how to open the washing machine and hide various items like the tv remote. i had to be careful before each wash

Mine hide behind the freezer under the stairs.
They have made a proper little den under there with torches pillows blankets etc.

DD will hide things in her toy teapot and put things in bags. So many bags ...

My youngest dd once hid from me when she was 2 or 3. I could not find I looked everywhere I still don't know to this day where she hid. My son can hide in empty cupboards that's his favourite hiding place.

in the playsets once found some jewelry in the till. no explanation given

DS (4) will hide under the bed or behind the chair - potentially good hiding places but not when he hides there every time!!

DD (2) tends to just throw a blanket over her head to 'hide'!!

My youngest likes to hide in any little gap he can find! Next to the toilet, behind the sofa, in the cupboard, under the washing basket or lay flat under the duvet on his bed!
His favourite place of all to hide though is behind the long ceiling-floor curtains in nanny's house!

Found pens hidden in my work boots!

Usually find items down the side of the sofa or under their beds, not sure if it is by design that things get hidden here or a case of lost and found.

Cupboard in the sitting room or the dog crate in our bedroom are current favourite spots but sometimes just lying on the floor with a sheet over her head will do!

My daughter likes to hide things down my top. Dignified? No, not really.

My son loves setting up camp in the airing cupboard. My Mum helped to put the washing away the other week and found him having a snooze

My daughter loves hiding inside small spaces within cupboards usually with a few cushions and a duvet!!

DD once hid herself very well when playing hide and seek - turns out she was in the cupboard under the sink. She is always hiding her socks, I've no idea where, but only after doing a wash we inevitably end up with only one of each pair.

Well this takes me right back! I'd for gotten some of these until I started reading.

At toddler age DS liked to play hide and seek on train journeys, sounds alarming but he would curl up on the seat beside me and put a jacket over himself, then giggle occasionally while he waited for me to find him. I would leaf through my magazine wondering out loud where on earth he could be for a few minutes before finally finding him.

He used to love it if I picked him up and then pretended I couldn't find him, so I'd be shouting "Littleking! Where are you? I can hear you? Are you behind me?" while spinning around holding him, looking over my shoulder. He'd be laughing too hard to speak and trying to say "I'm right here!". He used to ask for that after he was getting too big for me to spin around with really. "Do that thing where you pick me up and look for me". Glad this thread reminded me, I recommend it for little ones in a slight grump/after a mild falling out to cheer everyone up again.

When he was a bit older he pulled a bit of a Bruce Willis in Die Hard a couple of times in the supermarket. He was very good at it and could disappear from view completely in a second or two. One was getting under the racks that hold the trays of fruit and vegetables, there is a big cavity behind all the potatoes etc, if I didn't see him go in he could have been holed up in there for hours. The other was behind the boxes of UHT milk, where they have a pallet load on a low, deep shelf. Again, a surprisingly big space behind. I honestly couldn't understand where he could have gone in the blink of an eye. Started getting shopping delivered after that.

My DD likes to hide her toys in the washing machine. I have to go through it very carefully before I turn it on - I have managed to wash a dinosaur before.

The sock draw! It was a big draw! Or under the table is a quick favourite!

My girls hide either behind the sofa or behind my eldest's bed. Behind the bed every night when it's toothbrushing time.

My DS is often hiding things and finding them again without any fuss, but I noticed that quite a few cars were missing, asking my DS where he thought they might be his reply was I don't know. However when dusting a speaker we have by the TV it felt rather heavy and on closer inspection low and behold there was the 10 missing cars and a dummy he had put through the hole