Scribbles
@princess07031980 (5412)
United States
September 22, 2009 12:00am CST
My two year old has gone to town on redocorating the walls of the house with crayon scribbles everywhere! I have spent a lot of time with a bucket of water with Pine-Sol and ammonia scrubbing away to clean, but it is so timely. Any quick remedies to getting my walls back to normal that don't take 10 years?
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@blueeyedmommy03 (285)
• United States
22 Sep 09
I use hair spray... You wouldn't believe what hairspray can do..
@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
22 Sep 09
Really-I had not heard of that! I will have to try it out. So do you spray and wipe, or do you pretreat it with hairspray and clean it later?
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@blueeyedmommy03 (285)
• United States
22 Sep 09
Just spray and wipe... It works wonders on sharpie marks on the wall... lol
@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
22 Sep 09
Well, that sounds easy enough, I will defintiely have to do that. One more question-is hairspray just hairspray or does it matter if it's spritz or does it have to be aerosol?
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
24 Sep 09
I wish I saw your discussion earlier. This is an easy fix. Go to the dollar and get a tube of really cheap toothpaste. Toothpaste with a little water and almost no elbow grease removes crayon so so easy. If you still have crayon...just get out the toothpaste. I would never spend money on this problem and neither should you.
@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
24 Sep 09
Hmmmmm...that sounds easy enough and I have a medicine cabinet full of toothpaste. Ok one silly question what kind of toothpaste-or does it matter? The gel kind, the pasty kind? This is a new one, as I have never heard of it before. I have seen quick-fixes using hairspray and tons for the Magic Eraser (although the magic eraser takes the gloss off my walls). Anything to try-I am sick of cleaning his messes!
@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
24 Sep 09
Well, when learning about new techniques, you cannot ask enough questions to ensure you do it right the first time, right? Thanks so much for your help. I will be trying this theory soon!
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
22 Sep 09
My suggestion is to just cover all of your walls in white paper. Then the kid can decorat all s/he wants, and there will be no problems. When the papers get too full of childish decorations, just put up new ones! LOL I'd probably do that if I had a kid, because I am nott the tidiest person in the world, and for me that would be a dream come true, and it would save the walls. haha
@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
22 Sep 09
That would be a good idea, except I don't want to encourage drawing on anything except loose paper. LOL This is quite a problem here and I hate all the tedious scrubbing it takes to clean up. (Sigh) Oh well.
@austensawyer (29)
• United States
23 Sep 09
they have this chalkboard paint. you can buy it at home depot or lowes. and it turns whatever wall you paint into a chalkboard! i think it's a great idea and a great way to encourage your child to "think outside of the box" and save your walls!
@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
23 Sep 09
Wow, that is quite an interesting product that I have never heard of! At this point though, I don't want to encourage my 2 year old to color on the walls at all, until he knows when or where it's appropriate, if we were to try to the chalkboard paint idea. Only because he may still go after "unchalk-boarded" walls or attempt to color on the walls of other's home and that wouldn't be good either. I have so much trouble staying on top of to keep my stupid walls clean around here LOL.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Sep 09
princess get a Mr.clean eraser and it will take the crayon
marks right off the walls so I am told. It sure would be
a help if it works. You need a black board and some colored'
chalk and your two year old would have a ball.
@fairy032779 (9)
• United States
22 Sep 09
I used the Mr Clean Magic Eraser on my walls. It got all the crayola and washable marker off the walls. It didn't remove my daughter's masterpiece done in red permanent marker but it did lighten it a little.....I hope this helps......The joys of parenthood...... :)
@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
22 Sep 09
My friend had brought that over to help clean up a little bit a while back, and it did seem to clean it up. The only problem is it took the gloss finish off the paint on the walls, and now it is streaked with dull spots. Yet, it still may be the only option to get it off and I will have to repaint when the coloring on the wall phase is over. Bummer!
@mneff2003 (14)
• United States
23 Sep 09
Use Mr Clean Magic Eraser, it works awesome. Keep the crayons away from the little one and work at teaching them how to properly use them. People say to get erasable paper up on your walls but next thing you know the child is 10 and still thinks its ok to write on the walls. The time is now to teach them not to do it. Good luck
@austensawyer (29)
• United States
23 Sep 09
Mr. clean magic eraser. I used that to get my son's scribbles off the wall and am surprised by how well it works.
