Monday, 30 June 2008
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Creative Crime
My son just did the unthinkable in terms of rental homes. The last time he did something of this caliber, he was a toddler and he did it at my mom's house. Grannies forgive anything. My own Granny, may she rest in peace, forgave me for setting her house on fire. However, Junior's crime was not committed in a Granny's house. It was committed in a rental home (and one of the nicest rental homes I have ever seen, at that).
What is this crime I speak of? I will show you!
Junior thought the wall needed some art so he began to draw Roger Rabbit with a permanent marker. Good thing I caught him before he finished. Really good thing the owners left some touch up paint in the basement!
Is it just me or does this look more like Ickis from Nickelodeon's Ahhh Real Monsters! show than it does Roger Rabbit?
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Maybe you should look into some art lessons or at least supplies? Start channeling that creative bent away from walls :)
Heh. I drew on the bedroom wall of an apartment building with crayons and sharpies when I was five, and I wrote my brother's name on the wall so he would get in trouble for it...
Rubbing Alcohol can usually get permanent marker off stuff, as long as it is the FIRST thing you use. If you try to wash it off with something else first, the alcohol doesn't seem to work as well. Also, the Mr.Clean magic eraser is pretty good at getting it off as well.
Hopefully it won't be a big deal and can be cleaned up/ covered easily.
Love-Snow
they have those new art pads for kids, by crayola. You pin the pad to the wall, and when they press against it, the water inside shows up, kind of like the pads we had where you drew on them, then raised the plastic to erase. My friend's two year old was having problems with coloring everything, so she went and got the pad to pin on the wall. After awhile, she put it on a kiddie table to show that it's much easier to use the table than it was the wall.
My kids are famed coast to coast for their wall art. The problem is once there is a character on a wall it seems to just call for company. The trick is to clean it right away. If not, it takes over all available space.
My husband's grampa used to say that the only proper thing to do with pictures drawn on the wall, is to put an empty frame around it.
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - that's hillarious, my sister wrote my other sister's name on the wall as well. It was discovered years later who the culprit really was.
If the alcohol doesnt work, try acetone. I use acetone at work ALL THE TIME to get sharpies off of glassware. If you have nailpolish remover with acetone, try that. If not I am pretty sure you can buy some acetone from the local Home Depot (or similar store). It is pretty cheap. You might still have to touch it up a bit after you remove the drawing. But at least that should make it easier to cover up!!
Good luck!
My son LOVES to draw wall art Can you sense my enthusiasm? lol I suggest investing in Mr. Clean Magic Erasers...they are a God send for me...unfortunately he is getting to be quicker with his artistic calling than I can be with the cleaning!
ahaha. i loved Ahh real monsters. i agree with momma3princes. The magic eraser actually works really well (even for crayons) my experience with this includes one of my COLLEGE friends feeling it was ok to draw stick figures on my other friend's wall. i was super pissed but the magic eraser got the majority of the crayon off the wall.
Magic Erasers do a FABULOUS job of getting marker off walls.
another suggestion is to fasten large sheets of paper to coloring-prone walls... if they draw on the wall, it only goes on the paper, which you can take down any time :) and if the kids are graffiti artists, you can re-use the colored paper as homemade giftwrap :)
Mr Clean Magic Eraser works great. My nephew loves drawing on my walls with all kinds of things.
Since having always rented, and usually always having toddlers who ran rampant with crayons (or worse, pens and markers if they found one) behind my back - wall art has plagued me for almost as long as I've been a mom. Having tried lots of solutions, I have also found the Magic Erasers to be worth their weight in gold. They've saved us many a dollar in deposit returns.
Oh, and we only buy the Crayola brand of crayons since they are really easily washable without exerting too much elbow grease. Other brands of crayons are a lot harder to deal with.
I can imagine that the way my mom would deal with this situation (once the wall is fixed up) would be to get a big roll of butcher paper and cover the walls with it - then hand over some crayons/markers/whatever and let the wall art begin!
I hope you can get it all off and covered up!
i too did this when i was little...on the wall and on my mom's new purse. when she told me when i was older i felt so bad because she is not one to buy things for herself (there are 4 of us) and we weren't that well off. i have no idea how she cleaned the wall or the purse, but eventually we painted the wall anyway. there are some crayon marks on the way in our new home because there were kids who lived her earlier, but still haven't had time to clean it off. i think there's those new markers that only draws on paper or special paper???
When my son was a boy, he sprayed the spiderman silly string around. Man, that stuff does not come off the walls! I had to scrape it, paint over it with clear nail polish, then repaint. KILZ did'nt even work, still bled through. *kisses biceps*
GOO GONE is great for crayons, ink and such.
my son did the same in our apt... purple and black permanent marker all up and down the hallway and his room.
those ultra magic earsers did the trick... only I had to get like ten of them b/c he literally drew on EVERY wall in the house haha
When I was younger we weren't allowed to draw on the walls.
However, when my mother decided to re-furnish the house the way SHE wanted it, things took a change. She decided that all walls would be re-painted at some point, stripped any wall paper, re-decorated, but failed to re-paint. So in lieu of ugly de-wallpapered, unfinished walls, we now have drawings all over the bathroom and some of the bedroom walls. Luckily, my mom is an artist, so it looks quite good and goes with the decor, but you can imagine the surprise when I walked into the house from high school one day to find my mother had drawn all over the walls in pencil!XD I like your son's drawing, by the way. hahaha
uhm...when i was a kid, i covered all four sides of my mom's bedroom with my beautiful artwork and to make things even better i signed my name in bolded black and it was THE thing that stood out -_-"
she didn't even repaint any of it for another ten years because she had a feeling that i would do it again hahahah
I really could think of worse things to draw.
But that would be assuming the kid is an adolescent or older.
And that really is a terrible Roger Rabbit. Menacing eyes on that sucker.
hahahaha um hello! he forgot to color it in. he might as well finish it? hahaha