Talented Toddler

One of my many 'works in progress' for many months now has been a mural on my toddler son's wall. I am only able to work on it when he is staying the night at his Grandma's house and I can literally only get a little bit done each month, so the paints have been stored in his bedroom up on a high shelf, where I thought he wouldn't be able to reach... and I thought I was right as it took him 3 months to fathom out that if he bust the safety locks on his wardrobe drawers so they would pull out, he could use them as a ladder to climb up onto the radiator cover and pull the shelf down... half a litre of grass green emulsion paint may not sound much but spread over a cream carpet and then danced about in... well you can see the results below...

Note the happy smiley face on the aforementioned toddler who won't even stand still for photographs normally. He appeared as I went to take a photo and said 'SAY CHEEEESE' I think he was quite proud of his handiwork.

Also note the knackered drawers in the background...

Here, you can see the 'paint-job' in a bit more detail. What isn't too clear from the photos is the hand drawn embellishments he added with the black sharpie pen to the radiator cover and the wardrobe...

Note the shelf lying in the upper left hand corner of the photo. It has been turned upside down to obsure the green handprints which he obviously decided didn't go with his overall 'vision' for the room...

And here it is, minus grinning toddler. Took my dear partner approximately 3 hours working with a Vax and a scrubbing brush to get the carpet clean again.

Note the way the carpet is now colour-keyed into the lower half of the wall...

Well, it serves me right for having left the paint in there in the first place I suppose but never in my wildest nightmares did I think he would ever be able to reach the paints!

Just goes to show, craft stuff must be in the blood... Mwahahahahaha!