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We may have gradually adapted to spending more time at home this year, but that doesn’t mean it’s been easy. With children around, more time indoors can often mean more opportunity for mess-making, whether over-adventurous colouring, teatime catastrophes, or grubby mitts. Farrow & Ball’s durable Modern Emulsion paint is washable and wipeable, so to celebrate all eventualities, they would like to hear the story of the biggest mess your child has ever made.
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What has been your child’s messiest moment? Do you have a budding Picasso who simply can’t resist the allure of a blank wall? Perhaps your children weren’t even the culprits: are your four-legged friends responsible for muddy marks and wet splodges along the wall? How do you tackle the clean-up?
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LucyBMumsnet · 28/09/2020 10:01
When my ds was 4 or 5, he was playing upstairs with his wee friend from across the road. His bedroom is on the attic floor while most of the other rooms are the floor below.
It was a classic case of "things are very quiet, you should be worried". 
Ds and his friend came downstairs absolutely covered in paint - hands, clothes, shoes, the lot. We ran upstairs to find out what had happened: they'd been playing with the (large) squidgy bottles of poster paint, and rather than putting them on to the easel with its roll of lining paper, had been enjoying squishing the paint into the Ikea rug! 
It had actually soaked through to the floorboards below!
There were painted hand-prints on the door to the upstairs bathroom (we think that they had belatedly realised that they'd perhaps got a big too messy ) but amazingly, even though there was paint ingrained in the tread of ds' and his friend's trainers, somehow none of it went on to the blue stair carpet, nor on the cream carpet of the downstairs! 
To give the IKEA rug (blue with large white circles) its due, it cleaned up really well - you can only see remnants of its colour adventure on the underside.
Ds' trainers had to be scrubbed with a toothbrush to get the paint out.
We got off lightly! 
So so many. There was the glitter incident, the drawing all over her furniture incident (ongoing), the cutting her hair incident, cutting her cuddly toys/dolls hair incident, the picking at the wallpaper incident.. I’m sorry what? You want me to stop talking? But I’ve got so many more. 
I swear my dd isn’t completely feral.
DS drew random circles on his bedroom wall in felt-tip - something to do with Dr Who, not that you would have known. After much scrubbing I found the only thing to do was to buy some paint specially designed to cover up marks, then paint over it. Much tidier now 
The insides of a bean bag all over the house. The little balls get staticy and cling to everything and they're too light to hoover up. I remember going to the loo and finding them in my knickers
Crayon, drawn all over the newly decorated hall and his newly decorated bedroom with beautiful pirate themed wallpaper, on the wallpaper of course, and with added stickers too. He was 3. 
Covering an ornament with a duster to perform a magic trick. Saying abracadabra and pulling it away to find shockingly it had disappeared. Their face was a picture I tell you, thinking how do I get the parents ornament back now. Then..... smash as the ornament and grate below it broke into pieces. A different shocked face appeared then let me tell you. So yeah a moment I will never forget but a very messy moment it was too! Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry hehe
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DD drew a face on the wall with pencil when she was small, my then H was furious and started scrubbing it off. I stopped him, I thought it was cute. H is long gone but the little face is still smiling on the wall.
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