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Share the biggest messes your children have made in the 5 minutes when your back was turned - £300 voucher to be won!

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EllieMumsnet · 19/07/2018 12:35

Perhaps you have a child with the potential to be a future 'Banksy' - an artist able to cover a wall in felt-tip graffiti, while you are busy chopping carrot sticks. Or maybe they're more of a Jackson Pollock character - suddenly spraying the entire contents of their bowl across the floor in homage to the painter's splatter artworks? We’ve all been there when unbelievable messes have occurred in the blink of an eye and Carex would love to hear your stories about the biggest messes your children have made.

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Did you leave the room for five short minutes only to come back and find they'd somehow got at your prized Chanel lipstick and had liberally applied it not only to their lips, but their cheeks, eyes, hands and hair? What madness made you leave them unsupervised?! Share the unfortunate stories of the times you turned your back and a mess ensued.

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MargoLovebutter · 27/07/2018 15:43

When DS was about 5, he decided to try and make me hot chocolate and bring it up to me in bed. (He was a very early riser and the less said about my negligence in letting him have full run of the house probably the better. He has made it to adulthood, so hopefully I'm beyond being reported for it now!)

He put a great deal of chocolate powder in a mug, added water, stirred it very vigourously in the kitchen (judging by the amount of water & chocolate powder sprayed everywhere) and then brought it up to me in bed. Needless to say the kitchen floor and stone coloured carpet all the way showed the huge effort it had been to keep the mug steady all the way through the house, up the stairs & into my room. I was still coming to (as it was only 6am) and so he tried to "help me" drink it, which meant that the bed also got a good helping of it too!

It took me half a day to clean all the stains & some of them never quite lifted fully - bless him!

Minnibix · 27/07/2018 16:22

My little boy was playing in the bedroom so I put his brother who was strapped into his rocker chair in the same room giving him a "watch your brother for five minutes" whilst I went to the loo. When I came out Mark had covered his brother from head to toe with talc powder, Ian was white from head to foot with just his eyes looking out. So back into the bathroom I go and put them both in the bath.

ladymadonna1 · 27/07/2018 16:43

Yesterday my two year old stepped into the potty which his cousin had just peed in and then stomped all over the carpet of his bedroom floor. His cousin joined him and I was only alerted when I heard the two of them giggling hysterically from the other room. I was only away from them for all of thirty seconds!

SerenaVanDerWoodsen · 27/07/2018 16:47

The new sticker making machine was used to design stickers for a treasure hunt one Easter. Unfortunately they were then stuck in a row on the feature wallpaper and due to its matt finish could not be prised off without removing the top layer Shock So we had to redecorate the whole wall Confused This did not happen on my watch I’m looking at you MIL

meepmoop79 · 27/07/2018 17:36

This was when we were toilet training our eldest.
We were in the lounge, I'm changing my youngest nappy, which is very pooey, and he is wriggling like mad.
I turn to reach for the wet wipes and see that my eldest has removed his trousers and pants, and also has a very pooey bottom. Which he is trying to clean himself, by rubbing up and down against the sofa and the carpet!
That took a fair bit of cleaning to sort out.

LeeR1985 · 27/07/2018 17:57

Thankfully nothing too crazy, it always tends to be toys. My daughter will get out 20 different toys and only play with one so i'll walk into the front room and its a minefield

ang65t · 27/07/2018 19:13

Another sudocrem disaster, turned my back for 5 mins my daughter turned around and had smothered her face completely with the whole tub at least an inch thick

sm2012 · 27/07/2018 20:35

When my two were younger they took it upon themselves that they were going to do some painting...the kitchen table, floor, worktops etc were very colourful for quite a while!

twinklenic · 27/07/2018 20:57

My older to children are now 19 ans 18 , but when they were younger they were monsters sometimes. My son has ADHD and was always up to no good , often with a helping hand off his younger sister. The worse thing they did was when i was on the telephone once and they were in bed (supposed to have been asleep) they filled the toilet with paper and shampoo and flushed it so it overfilled , there was bloo in the cystern so we had blue ,foamy water with mushed up loo paper in about an inch of water !!

freefan · 27/07/2018 21:13

The time that sticks in my mind is not long after my third DC was born and I thought darling child 1 + 2 were playing nicely (4 +3 years) instead they were in the toilet emptying shampoo and bubble bath down the toilet.
My toilet smelled amazing for a while with bubbles to match.

lhlee62 · 27/07/2018 23:04

Little sister and a biro... we wanted tattooes like daddy's.... DD1 drew cat whiskers on her sister, drew all over her arms, legs and face. Sigh

dadshere · 27/07/2018 23:21

Dh left her unsupervised whilst he went to the bathroom, he came back and she had decided to make a cake. She had cracked all of the eggs onto the floor and was smushing it around when he returned.

papaver · 27/07/2018 23:52

Flooded bathroom in the time it took me to help friend to her car with her baby. A cooperative effort involving 3 preschoolers and some stacking cups. When I found them they told me they were paddling, which indeed they were!

tabbaz123 · 28/07/2018 07:25

I think the biggest mess was when they got hold of some nappies and had a tug of war with them!!!! Unbelievably how much stuff comes out of them nappies! I guess I am just thankful they were new ones (could of been worse) ha ha

FrozenMargarita17 · 28/07/2018 07:27

My daughter emptied an entire plant pot of soil on the floor when I had my back turned!

pandoraskids · 28/07/2018 07:29

Decorated the (warm) radiators with plasticine!

claza93 · 28/07/2018 07:50

I was having a five min power nap after a heavy night with the mums...… the kids got hold of the pens and managed to draw a moustache and glasses on the toddler!!! They thought it was highly amusing - a mare to get off!

prettybird · 28/07/2018 10:10

Ds' bedroom is on the attic floor above our "main" floor. He and a friend from across the road were playing upstairs quietly, aged about 5.

Too quietly Hmm

Ds came downstairs with his hands covered in paint, smiling Grin, to tell us what he'd been doing Hmm. We went upstairs. He and his friends had emptied three large bottles of red, green and blue poster paint onto paper and the rug in his room and had been joyfully squidging it around "painting". Shock

It had soaked all the way through the carpet ShockShock

Yet despite the fact that paint was ingrained in his trainer treads (but mostly on the top), he didn't get any paint on the hall carpet as he came downstairs Confused

His friend got sent home to get washed up while he got put in the bath and his trainers scrubbed. Dh and I were trying to keep straight faces because this was "serious" Wink

Amazingly, we managed to clean the IKEA rug! Shock (Although there is still some staining on the underside but who cares Wink).

There was a painted hand print on the upstairs bathroom door that is still there. Ds is now 17 Blush

devito92 · 28/07/2018 10:49

we were painting a fancy dress custome for nursery. I asnwered my phone and stepped away for 5 mins. Only to find when i returned my new wool rug covered in paint.

Rachdayan · 28/07/2018 11:04

Managing to reach a bottle of blue ink on a shelf, then drop it. Only for it to smash and spatter all over the carpet. No amount of stain remover is working on that...que new carpet.

helly01pbo · 28/07/2018 13:45

They drew all over the walls. Apparently I hadn't provided enough paper, and the wall looked like the perfect canvas... Needless to say we weren't too impressed (and had to paint the wall again)!

joggingrunning · 28/07/2018 14:08

They have managed to block the kitchen sink with a whole box of cereal and 6 pints of milk as they wanted to eat out of the sink instead of a bowl. I still don't understand thier reasoning for this. Confused

towser44 · 28/07/2018 14:46

About a ton in weight of glitter and a poorly hidden tube of superglue, which the DD duly found and proceeded to decorate our recently re-plastered lounge and kitchen walls!

BL0SS0M · 28/07/2018 15:32

Felt tips all over the wall happens more often than you think...but the best one was dollops of sudocream with nappies stuck to them!!

sophiefx · 28/07/2018 15:40

My daughter poured orange juice into our DVD player and said.. "it was thirsty mummy!"