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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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BonjourMinou · 25/07/2018 12:26

Back in my younger years, when I was an au pair, the toddler got hold of some talc. It was like winter wonderland and a nightmare to clean up.

For my own children, the worst messes have been almost an entire bottle of bubble bath squeezed meat onto the bathroom tiles and also a section of our bedroom carpet - a nightmare to clean up because you can imagine the bubbles!

And sun cream. Sun cream everywhere.

4GreenApples · 25/07/2018 14:50

The worst one I remember was when I’d left DS1 home with DH while I went out with DS2.

DS1 was just 3 at the time, and still hadn’t quite cracked potty training. DH left him playing in the conservatory while he went out to do some jobs in the back garden (conservatory opens into the back garden, so DS1 should have been visible to DH all the time this was going on).

While DH wasn’t looking, DS1 had a poo on the train set he was playing with on the conservatory rug.
Judging from the evidence, DS1 had then found some wipes (tracking poopy footprints on the way), started trying to clean it up, but then gave up and continued playing with his train set. The trainset that had been pooed on.
By the time DH noticed something was not quite right, there was poo all over the train set, all over the rug, and all over DS1.

I came home to find DH giving DS1 having his third bath. The trainset and rug ended up in the bin.

Theimpossiblegirl · 25/07/2018 20:35

DD once spent a lovely afternoon wandering in and out of our bungalow (from her room to the garden) and it wasn't until much later that I realised she was bringing in woodlice and snails. It took ages to (hopefully) find them all.

Thishatisnotmine · 25/07/2018 20:43

I would like to start by saying that our fire is disconnected...

Dd2, 15 months took all the coal briquette things from the fire, stacked some up, crumbled others and tried to eat one. It vacuumed out the rug but half the room (weeks later) still feels gritty and dusty. And also the fireplace does not look like it once did!

Flapdoodles · 25/07/2018 21:29

DS then aged 2 decided to draw patterns on my new cream carpet with shampoo and conditioner from the bathroom. I scrubbed it all off but the stains just got darker - I even had a professional carpet cleaner come to clean the carpet, it was lovely when he cleaned but within a week there were dark swirly patterns. The stains are like a magnet for dust/dirt and I have dark swirly patterns to this day!

MumInTheCity · 25/07/2018 21:35

When DD was about 3, I was ill and dozed off on the sofa when she was watching CBeebies. When I woke up she had made me a beautiful collage to cheer me up. The collage included 2 £10 notes, glued to the paper and covered liberally in glue, glitter and felt tip. The glue and glitter also covered DD, the carpet and most of the furniture. She was so proud of herself - it was the most expensive piece of art I'd ever owned!

lolo14 · 25/07/2018 21:54

My daughter was two and a half years old and I'd put her to bed. I was used to hearing the pitter patter of tiny feet upstairs as she refused to go sleep straight away. This resulted in multiple checks to ensure she stayed put and wasn't getting up to mischief. One night she went very quiet and I had that sense of foreboding and suspicion...what was she up to? So I walk upstairs and she's sat on the floor with black everywhere; her hair, body, carpet, walls, toys, bed clothes. Everything! Turns out she'd gone into the bathroom and found my activated charcoal tooth whitening agent. Mummy was not impressed Confused

MouseRatFan · 25/07/2018 22:38

My children emptied a huge pack of water beads so over the garden.... And didn't tell me.
I was none the wiser. Until. It. Rained. Confused
It looked like a alien spawn invasion over the whole lawn.

BrieAndChilli · 25/07/2018 22:45

DD when she was about 3 found a tiny pot of black face paint. She was covered in it head to toe. I put her in the shower to wash her off and she turned grey like a little alien. Took about 2 weeks for her to return to normal colour!!

starsandstuff · 26/07/2018 00:38

@KavvLar I'm reading this in bed with DP asleep and I had to literally clamp my hand over my mouth to stay quiet+ and the tears are streaming down my face Grin
+I may have snorted.

foxitude · 26/07/2018 09:55

Drawn on each other, drawn on the baby, used every colour or felt tip to colour on their faces, crayon on tv - think they thought that's how the picture gets there....
Generally able to undo hours worth of cleaning and tidying in minutes.

nightgap · 26/07/2018 11:10

I was talking on the phone in the hallway, when i heard a splashing sound. I didnt think much of it, however when a came off the phone my DD had wet the carpet in the living room, she had gone and put her little red wellies on and as was jumping up and down as if the wee was puddle to play in.

SillyMoomin · 26/07/2018 11:21

an entire bottle of coca cola upended onto the (had to be) white fluffy sheepskin rug

It never came out. The fibres remained sticky and brown coloured. It's now in the dog kennel

Bacere · 26/07/2018 12:20

Blue and green felt tip on cream carpet! To be fair they had put down newspaper before starting their colouring in but hadn't noticed when it moved as they were quietly concentrating so I couldn't be cross. Years later i can still see a little of the blue but others say they can't Hmm

WarmHugs · 26/07/2018 12:25

When my two were about 6 weeks and 20 months, I left them for literally 10 seconds. My oldest shouted to to me “Mummy, I put lipstick on X). That’s funny, I don’t wear lipstick. No, she had drew all over his face with pens!

KavvLar · 26/07/2018 13:22

@starsandstuff I can laugh about it now.... Wink

Deadheadstickeronacadillac · 26/07/2018 13:31

Ds1 and his two buddies (age 4) decided to have a talcum powder fight in my room whilst bouncing on the bed...two whole tins of talc scattered around the whole room! I swear, 6 years later I am still finding remnants of it when I vacuumGrinBlush

Maybugger · 26/07/2018 14:02

Did and her best friend (both aged 3) decided to mix a giant tub of zinc & castor oil cream with baby powder and decorate the bathroom,the landing and each other while useless DH was supposed to be keeping an eye on them!
He then decided putting them in the bath was a good idea.....z&co cream does not wash off but it coats a bath beautifully and is virtually unremoveable from new towels 😱

Purple999Red · 26/07/2018 14:47

I have to say drawings (using pens) all over the wall! Instant art at home :D

Turnedacorner · 26/07/2018 17:04

Found boys (then aged 3 & 5) on all fours in the kitchen eating (well lapping up is probably the correct word) the contents of a box of shreddies and a gallon of milk from the floor.......they were pretending to be dogs apparently ...Confused

polochick · 26/07/2018 17:21

Entire packet of 80-odd baby wipes strewn all over the hallway and a basket of fresh clothes tipped over and unfolded as a result!
Gotta love ‘em!

Daffodil2016 · 26/07/2018 17:35

Nail varnish! DD opened about 20 bottles and painted my bedroom with drawings, including my tv and my best shoes!

dewdneyk · 26/07/2018 19:08

My 3 year old son got hold of his older sister's oil paints and painted the television. Not the screen because that had lovely pictures on it but the black surround which was not very colourful - it was when he'd finished with it. He also pooed in the middle of the living room carpet and then carefully covered it with his sister's comic to implicate her. And same child fed his wax crayons down the front of the gas fire whilst I was upstairs. When fire was turned on the whole house was filled with smoke and colourful blobs of wax started to erupt from the fire. It took months for it all to clear.

UpOnDown · 26/07/2018 19:25

They covered the whole sitting room in sudocreme...

NotMeNoNo · 26/07/2018 20:35

Left teenager alone for half an afternoon. He decided to burn something, then some candles, then it obviously fell on the carpet and melted a patch, then threw it on the sink. Luckily he wasn't hurt And luckily didn't drop the burning paper a foot away on the log basket containing a box of firelighters!