You've got to love Washable Crayola Markers

[CaroPhoenix]

My daughter loves markers & crayons. We bought her the Color Wonder Markers (they only show up on special paper and not on clothes, walls, sofas, loveseats, arms, legs, feet, face, etc.). The only problem with the Color Wonder Markers is that it takes a minute or a little less for the color to show up.

My daughter, who is 3 1/2 years old, likes the instant gratification of the Washable Markers (they show up no matter what you put them on). So last night, against my better judgement I gave her the washable markers. I was playing a computer game and occassionally I'd pop my head up and saw she was playing nice & quiet (should have been a clue). By the time I noticed anything wrong (she was standing in front of my curio cabinet which has a mirrored back) and noticed she was coloring herself! :eek: She was beautiful! :roll: I wish I had taken a picture. Hehehehe ... She was definitely a site. Fortunately, everything washed off. :D

Just thought I'd share.

[sportsmom]

My youngest did the same thing one night while I was out.

Big sisters were asleep, but apparently this one wasn't having it, so daddy let her stay up and watch cartoons while he was on the computer. When I got home around 10pm, she was covered in marker, head to toe. I took pictures and then yelled at him for not paying attention. Thank goodness they were washable markers. In fact, she's the reason that only washable markers are allowed in our house.

I'll see if I can find the pictures and post them.

[protege]

Somewhat along those lines....my brother drew on himself when he was younger. Imagine my mother's surprise when she came home from work, and saw that he now had black lightning bolts on his arms. She was a bit annoyed, but at least got the last laugh--the dumbass used a *permanent* marker :eek: and had them on for weeks.

[iradney]

When I was little, I would refuse to be put down for naps. So my parents would be snoozing, and I'd be playing with my toes. One day, I found a permanent marker in my dads bag, and promptly drew pretty pictures on the wall.
My bottom was bright red after that :)

[SnapAddict218]

I think covering themselves in marker is a rite of passage for children, right on up there with cutting their own hair.

[booger]

When I was about 1 1/2, I decided it would be fun to color on the wall with permament marker. I do not remember doing this, but I CLEARLY remember getting caught. My mom picked me up, brought me into the bathroom, put me in front of the mirror (I had marker on my "pretty" pink dress too), and said very sternly, "Look what you did." I don't remember the rest but you can bet I never colored on anything that wasn't paper after that. My mom was amazed that I remember that since I was so young when it happened.

[protege]

There is one place at my parents' house that I managed to scribble. It's on the bottom of one of the overhead kitchen cabinets. How? Well, I was sitting on the counter one afternoon, reached up with a crayon, and went nuts. Nearly 30 years on, it's still there :angel:

Since my mother *hates* those kitchen cabinets (cheap, 1950s-style metal ones), I'm not sure how much longer that'll last :(

[Der Cute]

My sister did the self coloring (I'm too smart for that :P ) WITH LIPSTICK.

Mom had just bought some new Avon color...and hadn't even used it yet on herself.
So Sis decided to play pretty with the lipstick and colored her whole face up to the hairline with this pinkish color. Used up the WHOLE tube of lipstick on herself.

Ya know what happens when you wear red based lipsticks? It stains your lips.....Sis's face was pink for a few weeks due to the stain.

HAHAHAHAHAH

Cutenoob

[MystyGlyttyr]

There are stray marker stains all over our house from a phase I went through when I was little for marking how tall everything was. I didn't get in trouble though, because there's never been any chance of us selling our house so it didn't really matter how much I colored it :lol:

[protege]

Hehehe when my old bedroom was redone some years ago, my brother, who was 12 then--old enough to know better, got busted for playing tic-tac-toe on his walls. Apparently, the grid pattern was just *too* tempting, and he was jealous of my newly repainted room. Nevermind that the wallpaper in there was nearly 20 years old, literally peeling off the walls, and the walls themselves needed some replastering. No, he wanted his done too...and managed to upset my mother. She still hasn't let him off the hook, and as of yet, he's still stuck with those stupid "Xs" and "Os" on the walls. Serves him right :p

[BookstoreEscapee]

My brother drew dolphins on his wall in pencil, just under the light switch...he was at least in his late teens at the time. (But then, he can actually draw...he did a painting of a dolphin that is probably somewhere around here still.) They got painted over when my grandmother moved in a few years later and I moved into his room. I don't remember ever drawing on walls or anything like that...

[blas]

The landlords around here must be extremely lazy. They had all the time in the world to repaint all the walls, but no time to take a bottle of nailpolish remover and get rid of the streaks of nailpolish on my roomate's bedroom door.

[Andara Bledin]

I had a friend who wrote/drew all over his walls.

I helped him out with the logos for Iron Maiden and Metallica.

There were some pretty raunchy drawings and comments on some of the walls. His dad got upset at those.

^-.-^

[MadMike]

One day, when my son was 3, he scribbled on the walls of his room. And I couldn't get mad at him, because he showed it to me proudly, and said, "I made this for you!"

I calmly explained that we don't draw on the walls, and that if he wanted to draw, he should ask me for some paper.

A few days later, he asked me for some paper, and I was happy that he had remembered what I had told him before. Until I went into his room, and saw he had already scribbled on the walls again. :doh:

That time I got mad at him, and reminded him not to draw on the walls, and warned him that if he did it again, I was taking his crayons.

A few days later, I went into his room again, and found he had scribbled all over the side of his dresser. Technically, he didn't do anything wrong, as the dresser was not a wall.

Funny how even at that age, they know all about loopholes. :rolleyes:

[Andara Bledin]

At that age, it's not about loopholes.

It's very black and white. Mommy said not to draw on the walls. The dresser is not the walls, and Mommy didn't say not to draw on the dresser, so that's ok.

^-.-^

[Dips]

When Mr. Dips was ten and his brother was five, they shared a room. Mr. Dips saw his little brother sleeping peacefully and thought he just looked so cute.

Then, for whatever reason, Mr. Dips decided that his brother would look even cuter with a moustache. So, before common sense and reason could stop him, he grabbed a marker and drew a moustache on his sleeping brother.

Immediately Mr. Dips realized that was Not a Good Thing to Do and he knew he'd be in trouble. So he shook his brother, "Hey, Brian! Wake Up. Somebody drew a moustache on you!"

Even though Brain had no idea who "somebody" was, Mom figured it out pretty quickly. She only had the two kids, you see.

[blas]

"It was a rabid monkey, I swear, Mummy, you must believe me!"

[sarahj]

I have a sister two years younger, and a brother four years younger than myself. When he was a baby, mum kept his various creams etc (moisturizer-type-stuff) on top of a chest of drawers in his room. I was tall enough to reach them, but knew better than to mess around with this stuff myself, so one time I gave a tub of white cream to my sister. She put it all over her face. Mum has that picture somewhere.

[CaroPhoenix]

I'm trying to teach my daughter that coloring on herself is not the way to go. (She may or may not have autism, but all signs point that way). I don't know what it is, but everytime she has something like a pen, crayon, marker, she thinks it has to go all over her body. :rolleyes: