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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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DreamsInBlack · 12/08/2018 20:42

When my son was young, a friend's toddler son came to play. I was so impressed they were playing away quietly in my son's room. I kept popping in to check on them and everything was fine. I called my friend's son through when his mum came to collect him and told her how well behaved he'd been.

Closing the door, I came back into the flat as my son was squeezing himself out through the narrowest gap in the doorway to his room, closed the door behind him and froze as he saw me. Puzzled, I went towards the door.

"Wasn't me", he said.
"What wasn't?"

Looking round his room, every single piece of the white furniture had been doodled on, right up as high as the little toddler had been able to reach. Crayon scribbles covered every surface. Five hours. Five bloody hours, scrubbing with sugar soap.

BikeRunSki · 12/08/2018 20:47

When my son was about 18 months old I was in the queue to pay for some milk in a very fancy farm shop. I was holding him chest to chest, with his legs round my waist and chin on my shoulder looking behind me. There was suddenly an almighty clatter, which went in for several seconds. He swiped a whole shelf of fancy jams and chutneys onto the stone floor. Probably about 30 jars. Fortunately they didn’t make me pay!!

BikeRunSki · 12/08/2018 20:50

I was expecting DD, 39 weeks pg, when DS (just 3) dropped a glass bottle of milk on the floor. I was on my hands and knees scrubbing up the mess when contractions started... i’ve always put it down to that scrubbing.

peanutbutter310 · 12/08/2018 20:54

Thought I had successfully taught DD to take her shoes off by the front door when we get home. Until the day we'd been jumping in puddles in the park Blush

Iwantedtrianglesnotsquares · 12/08/2018 20:57

Dd aged 4 suffered from nose bleeds quite a lot. She had obviously had one after bedtime and proceeded to write her name in blood on her wall.... that was an interesting discovery the following morning... Hmm

ChasedByBees · 12/08/2018 23:31

Not messy as such, but the contents of the hole punch are really fun to throw around. Hmm

We have had home made perfumes (aka water and random mushed up leaves) applied to all teddies and dolls. That’s quite messy.

kelliec · 17/08/2018 18:36

It has to be the time the whole bubble bath got flushed down the loo bubbles everywhere!

Teaspoon74 · 21/08/2018 16:20

Where to start?!?
My little one has discovered how to open cupboards and draws and delights in emptying them. Usually this involves dropping things on the floor next to the storage so we simply pick them up and place them back in.
But she has a new trick!
Yesterday I left my partner with our little girl for five minutes whilst I popped next door to collect a package that a neighbour had taken in. When I got back to my own front door there was a heap of toys, leaflets, tampax, pencils, wooden blocks and sweeties on the welcome mat.
Five minutes!!!!
#Monster
#MyMonster
#Loveher

gheaney · 22/08/2018 22:05

Not 1 but 5 little piles of poo around living room carpet while but enjoying some nappy off time. Think he was marking his territory

GetKnitted · 28/08/2018 23:29

age 0, DS poured out the contents of a 2kg pag of semolina and a 1kg bag of dried beans, cue me getting out my camera!

JeSuisPrest · 28/08/2018 23:59

The 3 year old decided she was a big girl and could pour her own undiluted blackcurrant cordial which she found in the cupboard. About 3ml of a 1 litre bottle made it into a plastic beaker, and the rest ran into every crevice and over all the cupboards and surfaces in my white gloss kitchen (installed pre kids obviously). That stuff really stains Angry

xFreePeaceSweetx · 29/08/2018 22:06

Food colouring and glitter. Totally my fault though. I'd made up some homemade play dough and moved my ingredients to one side but not out of sight. My nephew who was 4 at the time was staying with us. The kids were sat at the table bashing the dough and making shapes so I went to make a brew. It had gone too quiet so I went back to investigate. All 4 of them had opened the food colouring and spread it all over the table. I did have a shower curtain spread out so that part was ok but it went everywhere! It was a heavy real wood table with wax (which to be fair I didn't keep up) so it had soaked in. The kids pooed blue/green for days and my nephew had it in his hair til it grew out. We kept that table for another 5 years and covered it up wjen we had to.

Ruh100 · 01/09/2018 09:45

5 mins, 30 seconds more like it! Pulled all the unraveled the whole toilet roll and then ate 1/2 of the empty cardboard tube!

CopperPan · 01/09/2018 21:13

DS2 discovered he loved the taste of squirty cream and when he got sick of eating it, decided to decorate the kitchen with it. Luckily it is all tiled flooring and only a little bit reached the hallway carpet.

Maiyakat · 01/09/2018 21:40

Smearing foundation on a radiator, then trying to clean it off with her pyjamas...

vickyors · 03/09/2018 21:09

My daughter is a master of mess. I turn my back and she draws all over herself ('painting my nails..!') and removes any toy she can get her hands on- train sets, dolls from the house, Lego. Hardened candle wax becomes a nice smelling toy.
I turn back around.. and there is carnage. From
Wall
To
Wall
Mess.

cannotmakemymindup · 08/09/2018 11:32

Oh the irony, my Dd likes to use soap far to liberally. Not just liquid soap but hard soaps to. So her toys for bath time, the freestanding mirror, the taps and sink all get 'cleaned'. Nothing quite like a smeary, globule strewn bathroom.

RhubarbAndCustards · 08/09/2018 18:47

Ball pool balls emptied everywhere!! Took forever to get them back in.

We also had poo-gate. When she pooed on the rug and trod in it and then everywhere....

DinosApple · 08/09/2018 22:22

The day the 1yo and 2yo emptied the cold ash out of the fire grate and made footprints and handprints on the carpets and walls Shock. Literally 2 minutes...

Otherwise the time baby Bam Bam (DC1 then 10 months old) picked up a bottle of red wine from the wine rack on the floor and smashed it. (She was fine but it looked like a slaughterhouse).

They can still turn a room upside down in seconds at 7&9.

Sugarhouse · 10/09/2018 11:52

He’s still so little so never left for long but can manage to cover the cat in porridge from his high chair while my back is turned for a few seconds

ThenBellaDidSomethingVeryKind · 10/09/2018 23:14

I hadn’t even left the room, or turned my back -merely glanced away. In that time, dd, then about 5m, pooed in her bouncy chair, managed to grab a handful of it out of the side of her nappy, and successfully smooshed it into the toy she was holding, and her hair. 🙄

fancynotplain · 14/09/2018 06:51

My toddler discovered soot. If you reach into the chimney, you can grab a fistful of fluffy black powder that, to his delight, made huge clouds when he clapped his hands. That was a huge clean up and he was determined to try again for months so had to live with fireplace surrounded by stair rails for months.

NerrSnerr · 14/09/2018 19:05

Sharpie on a cream carpet. It was my fault for letting her draw with them!

HearMeSnore · 14/09/2018 19:48

Zinc and castor oil cream. Two toddler-sized handfuls of it smooshed into the cream carpet. Did you know that zinc and castor oil cream turns black over time if it's not completely removed? I didn't know that. And it turns out it's pretty much impossible to completely remove.

Alevel · 22/09/2018 10:02

When he used his dads nasal hair trimmer as a tool and set to work on the fireplace. Thank god we were getting a new one.