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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[lovewatchingrainfall]

The best one which I still go cold over today was. Me my mum and my eldest went to a small family run restaurant while on holiday, my child at that time being about 18months had spaghetti Bolognese to eat we turnt our back for not even 5 seconds and the bowl was thrown against the wall, the mess went everywhere up the walls, in a ladies bag, everywhere. We felt awful and offered to clean up but they were so nice and said not to worry these things happened. The women's who hand bag it went it just laughed about it and said kids will be kids. I laugh about it now.

We have also had the sudocream covered child who eats it and had it over every inch of the cot. Let's say the cot was moved away from the drawers that day.

[Notabee]

Another sudocrem incident here! One of my Dc's thought they'd style their hair with it. You cannot wash it out.....
In doing so they'd also got it all over the wall, sink, carpet, mirrors...
After that I made sure it was always out of reach!

[DamsonPie]

7yo DS watched a tv programme where they showed you how to make your own Easter egg by using a balloon as a mould and spreading melted chocolate on it. While I was in the kitchen making lunch, DS inflated a balloon, suspended it from the living room light fitting with a bit of string, then microwaved a bar of chocolate and started spreading it on the balloon.

Unfortunately he’d missed out the crucial step of letting the chocolate cool down first. Hot chocolate made the balloon slowly expand until POP! There was a massive explosion and a wail from DS. I went into the living room to find him standing there in shock, splattered with melted chocolate... as were the walls, carpet and furniture. Basically it was like a chocolate bomb went off. It was EVERYWHERE. For months afterwards we were still finding hardened chocolate splatters

[Nsmum14]

3 year old decided to make his own cocoa. We have an under-counter fridge (a nightmare with a kid so young in the house!). He must have kept pouring long after the cup was full. He then stepped in the puddle of milk and came to find me, staining much of the carpet with milk.

[Tefiti2]

Vaseline.... on the walls! A full paint job was unfortunately needed.

[Silvertap]

My son was "practicing his X's". All over the car. With a nail.

In about 2 mins when my back was turned.

[ThreeTimesMama]

My oldest child helping youngest to draw tattoos all over his body. It took some time and couple of days to remove felt pen tattoos from him.
When my youngest child learned how to write his name, he was writing it every, on the wall, on the books, on the clothes, on the toys, on his bed. So I always had to clean it from somewhere.

[ScrubTheDecks]

Er Damson, I feel your DS missed out more than one crucial instruction, such as:
“Ask an adult to help you”
“Do not suspend your balloon from a light fitting or other electrical fitting”
“Cover the area underneath with polythene or similiar “
“Wear an apron “
Etc


Actually it sounds a ridiculous thing for a TV programme to encourage children to do!

[DamsonPie]

@ScrubTheDecks if he’d asked an adult to help he wouldn’t have been allowed to do it! He told me he was making chocolate crispy cakes for after lunch. I helped him microwave the chocolate but had no idea he was sticking it on a balloon!

[avamiah]

My 8 year old is a expert on making slime.😬
Shaving foam and contact lense solution and food colouring all over my rug and throw in the living room and my sink and all my cereal bowls covered in bright red slime.

[JustDoOne]

God, so many. Lots of big bowls of milky cereal and soup spilled/sloshed over the carpet, so it's nice and stinky. Sudocrem incidents. A really bad one when 3 year old DD pinched 15 year old DD's nail varnishes and make up and trashed the lot and the bedroom carpet/furniture. Same DD likes to tattoo herself with felt tip pens and just last week, we were on holiday in a beautiful lodge and she got up early and drew little purple hearts EVERYWHERE 🙄. That's so the tip of the iceberg though!

[mermaidsandunicorns]

My ds who was about 3 at the time woke really early one morning and decided he wanted to paint me a picture. He poured yellow paint on to some paper and then walked through the house to put it on the radiator (like the drying racks they have in nursery) and left a long line of yellow paint all through the house. As a result I had to have three carpets replaced and the walls completely redecorated as it was water based paint and only dilutes down further when cleaned.
He never did it again

[CoffeeOrSleep]

Sudocreme. On carpets, curtains and bedding. That really doesn't shift easily....

[Elliejojo]

I went to collect my eldest from school leaving ds with dh.
I returned and while his back was turned he had drawn with felt tip over the wall, all over himself and over every sofa cushion! ( luckily the cushion covers are washable!)

[Lindy2]

A rip in a travel pillow full of millions of tiny polystyrene beads.
It was like a scene from Frozen
I'm still finding beads over a year later!

[LynetteScavo]

A large pot of strawberry yogurt placed in the middle of the living-room and jumped on by then 3yo DS1.

Instant coffee granules sprinkled all over DS2s bedroom carpet before school. I didn't discover this until after school. It had been a very humid day and the granules had melted.

[anitagreen]

My daughter got a bottle of St moritz darker than dark fake tan off the shelf and painted herself and her 16 month old brother in the tan, whilst I opened the door to the delivery man. The picture evidence is hilarious now but wasn't at the time, I managed to get it out as soak the carpet with detergent to remove to but had to keep checking for the next few hours that a tan never developed on the carpet

[voyager50]

We were making chocolate brownies - he tried to open the lid to the cocoa with far too much force - the lid shot off, the pot went in the air and the kitchen was covered in brown powder - despite cleaning everywhere I was still finding patches of brown dust for weeks later!

[aggga8]

I had once all my eyeshadow all over the bed.

[sealight123]

This was from a while ago but is always renowned as the messiest grossest story.

My daughter was potty training, I had got up for work and she was awake so I made her some breakfast, got her ready and brought her back to her toddler proofed room, so my boyfriend could have a few minutes more rest whilst I had a shower. I come out of the shower 5 minutes later to here my boyfriend bawking...and wailing...almost crying.

My daughter, trying to be helpful had a number 2 accident in her pullups. Trying to clean up she removed them (obviously getting poo all over her). There was poo hand prints, footprints and markings everywhere in her room that she went. When I walked in, she was trying to wipe her bum with a beach ball (no idea why)

We threw out so much that day...so much. She slept in the spare room for 2 days until we could finally get rid of the smell...every part of that room and it's contents were disinfected but it wasn't the same for another few days lol

My boyfriend was never the same again...

[FlowerPotMum]

I remember my then 18month old getting her fingers into some petroleum jelly that I'd left in her reach. She smeared it ALL over her hair!.
I was meeting a friend in town..so we had to style it out with a teddy boy type quiff!.
It took liberal washing up liquid to remove it 😂
Lesson learned. Teenagers make and all too different type of mess -mouldy cups and plates-

[84CharingCrossRoad]

My Wilf got the lid off a tin of cornflower blue paint in the front garden many years ago and walked it all over the gravel and lawn. I had let him out to play never dreaming he could get the lid off the tin.
My neighbour heard me shouting and came across the road. She borrowed my phone and called her son who came with his pressure washer and cleaned the whole lot off thankfully.

[Sammyislost]

My 8 year old trying to get the ketchup out of the bottle this week, shaking it with the lid open....it looked like there had been a murder in my kitchen!! There were ketchup cast off spatters all up the walls and on the ceiling!

[Playdohnut]

Large beanbag. Small hole in beanbag = leaking beans = looked like DD's bedroom had 2 inches of snow. She thought it was great. Hours to clear up...

[DonkeyPunch88]

DD1 when she was two managed to get a dirty nappy off in her cot over night.

It was like a shit grenade has gone off