I was gone for 5 minutes when my cheeky kids covered themselves & the kitchen in white PAINT – it cost me £500 to fix
A MUM got the fright of her life when she left her cheeky kids for five minutes and they covered the kitchen in white paint, costing her £500 to fix.
A hilarious photo captured the tots caught in the act with Bonnie crouched over the exploded bucket with a guilty face and both dripping in white pain.
Hayley Kidd, 27, from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, was in the middle of a kitchen revamp when she left her kids Bonnie, four, and Harry, one, playing outside in the garden.
The young mum nipped upstairs to use the loo thinking her kids would be occupied outside but got quite the shock when she returned less than five minutes later to find the cheeky youngsters had smeared a tub of white pain all over themselves and the kitchen, including the floors, cupboards and surfaces.
Hayley said she had left paint on the kitchen bench when Bonnie climbed up and used a ladle to throw it around the room and at her younger brother.
A hilarious photo caught the cheeky young’uns in the act.
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Hayley, who was redecorating her kitchen with a new lick of paint, said it cost £500 to clean up her kids’ mess, which included replacing the oven, air fryer, microwave and even plug sockets.
Hayley said: “It’s quite possibly the worst day of my life, but it was funny and it’s done now. There’s always something in our house.
“I started painting my kitchen and the children were playing outside in the garden. While they were playing, I thought I’d run upstairs.
“So I went to the toilet, then I spotted a pile of washing on the stairs so I picked that up and put it on my bed.
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“I can’t describe how quickly it happened. It was less than five minutes. I came down and I was faced with that.”
Realising what had happened, Hayley said: “I had no words, there was a moment of pause and silence while I took it in.
“Bonnie had pulled a ladle out of the drawer and was swinging it around and throwing it to the other side of the room at my other child which is why he was covered in it.
“They saw my presence and were like ‘oh no, we’re in trouble’. I just asked them what they’d done and she said she was sorry.
“I try to do gentle parenting so I took a big breath. Bonnie asked if I was mad and I just said I wasn’t happy with them but it’s done now.”
The nursery teacher rushed the kids upstairs for a shower before using cereal boxes to scrape the paint away, which she spent 12 hours trying to remove.
Hayley said: “I just got them upstairs in the shower so I dripped more paint everywhere on the way. I showered them down which was a traumatic experience for them when I was trying to get the paint off.
“Harry doesn’t sleep without me so I had to lay there for one hour while the paint was drying and I just had to go down and my brother had already started cleaning for me.
“We had to use cereal boxes to scrape it up. I ended up having to take Harry to bed and deal with it in the morning. I was cleaning from about 6am until 6pm.
“I’ve managed to get most of it up but there are drips that look awful. There’s still paint in some places I can’t get it out of. I need to replace the microwave, the oven, the air fryer and the plug sockets keep tripping.”
Hayley shared a picture of the ordeal on social media, which has racked up 3,000 likes, shares and comments.
One person wrote: “Hahaha. Oh Hayley. My god, children at their finest. Honestly you have the chill of a Saint. I’d have stuck both mine in the paint and binned the lot.”
Another said: “I think if my kids did this, I’d finally have to section myself. I can’t even begin to imagine what went through your head walking in to this. I’d probably scream the house down.”
Hayley said: “I thought I was going to get stick for leaving the paint out but people found it funny because so many people can relate.
“I was gone for literally a few minutes. I’ve learned my lesson, I know what kids are capable of in such a short space of time.
“Some people were saying they’d put their kids in the bin or bury them in the garden and some said to just burn the house down and buy a new one.
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“It made light of the situation because I was checking in and out throughout the day.
“They look like little angels, they don’t look like they’d do something like that but they’re like little demons.”
