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

[EllieMumsnet]

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.

Here’s what Carex has to say: “Here at Carex we’re all about living life hands on… and sometimes that means getting messy! Luckily we’re here to clean, care and protect with our range of antibacterial hand washes. To keep the family busy this summer you can currently enjoy half price entry to Alton Towers and Sea Life centres with every promotional pack of Carex.”

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.

Everyone who posts on the thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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Mine shook half a bag of flour all over the living room floor and rolled around in it making snow angels!

Two youngest dds thought they’d help themselves to the jar of honey whilst I went to answer the door... sticky mess everywhere!

Dd, then 18m, played with the dog vom when I had rushed off to get the cleaning products. Still haunts me to this day 🤢

I asked two year old ds1 to entertain his little brother at the dining table while I popped into the kitchen to get pudding. He poured my can of Coke over his head!

There's a few!

Sudocrem over a red carpet. Back in the days when phones didn't have cameras.

Talc all over the living room by my then 1.5 abs 2.5 year old children. I realise when I saw talc footprints across the kitchen/diner as I was lovingly preparing their dinner. No photos ask was too stressed but it was that bad that I had to hoover the hoover!!

I've definitely got a photo of my 2 year old painting the dining room table while I was upstairs putting her 1 year old brother to bed! Can't find it right now though!!

Vegetable oil all over a tiled floor and in the washing machine

DD2 found the sudocrem and put it on her feet, then ran around on my parents' lovely carpet.

Baking is always a disaster - flour, sugar, beaten eggs everywhere. All over me, all over the kitchen, the ceiling, in hair, in ears and up noses. Can't bear it.

Another sudacrem incident here! When my son was 2ish and only just into a cot-bed. Totally my fault as I had left the tub in his room. I put him to bed, went to settle down in the living room. A short while later went up to the bathroom and realised I couldn't see through his glass-paned bedroom door! Yes, sudacrem everywhere, on his bed, rubbed into every lane of glass on the door, in his hair, all over his pyjamas. He was just sat in the middle of the floor like a little naughty Casper the ghost giggling to himself!

Pink crayon on tv, I've been lucky so far

While I was cleaning up the whole house she was following me around ( my daughter ) and she always does but when I started cleaning my make up room she was watching me and likes my make up and everything
So I eventually moved on to the other bedroom and she didint follow me and I realised after I was finished cleaning the room and i though she’s really quiet let me check what she’s doing
She had taken everything back out and use all my lip sticks and all my eyeshadows
I’m a MUA and my products were not cheap
I was so angry 😡

Still not quite crawling but is still able to pretty much dismantle the teepee tent that I leave him in!

My little boy once played with water in the bathroom, filled up the sink...didn't stop filling up the sink till it flooded the entire bathroom floor, leaked down into the neighbour's flat below. She called the building manager who called the landlord who called us and wanted to know what was going on!

We have a few

When we started potty training I left DS to play by himself to cook dinner without even thinking about him having a accident.
Until I walked into the living room to discover he had poo on a book. He had for some reason decided to spread the poo around the room, the carpet, the table and coffee table and his face including around his mouth and hair. I had to leave the room to throw up 🤢

The second time i came into the bedroom (live in a flat) to find DS in my make up bag he had taken bites out of 3 of my Estée Lauder lipsticks but they clearly didn't taste nice as they where spat out on the floor and he had managed to open a pot of bronzer and was painting our cream carpet using a make up brush. It took hours for the bronzer to go

Yes mummy mummy its snowing here too but with polystyrene I have no idea what type it was but went ererywhere and was so static it wouldnt hoover.
Also an unmanned tin of paint while I went for a wee, they were covered!

Permanent marker all over the wooden kitchen floor...

Dd2 stole dd1's lip balm and covered the entire house with it... It was awful, so greasy to clean off, but transparent so you didn't spot where it was until you'd put your hand in it...

The cousinly talcum powder fight in the bathroom, a wild success from the point of view of the participants?

The self cut Mohican, hair all over the bathroom, in the bath, on the floor, impossible to get rid of, needing a razor job, where we found scraps of hair for weeks?

The chocolate crispy debacle, with golden syrup and melted chocolate everywhere, over the floor, over the kitchen, over the clothes, in the hair..

The great washing up liquid tournament...

A tub of zinc and castor oil cream emptied and smeared on the hall carpet, just by the front door, which had only been down a fortnight, followed by a bottle of fabric softener emptied into a wicker waste paper bin... also on a carpet (not the hall)

This was my kids worst mess ever....created in the five minutes that I had my back turned UNBLOCKING THE TOUKET THEY'D JUST STUFFED THE UNRAVELLED CONTENTS OF A WHOLE TOILET ROLL DOWN. This day has gone down in family legend.

TOUKET = toilet

Oh gosh, this brings back bad memories! I can think of two memorable incidences...

1. Woke up to the sound of DCs laughter... came downstairs to find that they had opened the baking cupboard and had set about making something. In the middle of my kitchen floor was a pile of icing sugar & flour. They'd used their hands to mix it into a paste along with a bottle of green food colouring and a bottle of blackcurrent squash. They'd then run through it all and smeared it all over the kitchen and traipsed it into the carpet in the lounge. It took me hours and hours to get the cement-like concoction out of the carpet. I had to resort to using an ice scraper!!

2. The time I got out of the shower to the sound of running water... ran downstairs to find the kitchen taps on full blast, the spray ricocheting off a plate and over the end the of the sink. Oh and 2" of water all over the kitchen. It was a cold autumn day. I remember standing at the back door in just my pants desperately trying to mop up the water whilst on the phone to my boss attempting to explain why I was going to be late

Oh and incident number 3 I have a reminder of on my desk. The DCs went through a 'potion' stage. This one was lime green and coral pink nail varnish poured into a pint glass with some squash and some shampoo for good measure. I keep pens on the stripey glass at work

All of these happened when the DCs were 3 and 2. They went through a VERY destructive phase! Thankfully not much has happened since, aside from DS writing 'I love you DD xxxxxxx' in 6 inch high letters on her bedroom wall. In pink 'because that's her favourite mummy!'. This was a few weeks into him starting reception. I wasn't sure whether to be proud or livid!!

Oh gosh, the more of these I read, the more I remember!! There was the time I'd just bought 4 new bottles of my favourite radox shower gel can't say no to a BOGOF They has squeezed all 4 bottles out onto their duvet covers. It was summer so both divers fitted into the washing machine together. Fast forward half an hour to me walking in to bubbles literally projectile spouting out of the washing machine drawer. And the washing machine pathetically flashing the 'you put too much soap in me' light. I spent 2 hours & 2 bottles of vinegar setting the programme off, waiting for it to fill with water and then draining it before the bubbles stopped coming.

They had

And duvets

DS2 (its always DS2) used all of my expensive pot of lip conditioner stuff to re-paint my bedroom wall. Two coats of paint later and I can still see the stain.

He has also done the “fountain of coco pops” by holding the full box and jumping up and down so they spray all over the kitchen. It was an extra large family sized box. Was still finding them weeks later. He repeated this stunt with a full box of Frosties a week later

He has also got hold of a full tub of cocoa powder and spun round at speed, coating the whole kitchen and me in the process. I was making a cup of tea at the time and he was just 2 feet away but that boy is whippet fast! On the plus side, the kitchen smelled like hot chocolate for a while 😂