Our youngest was 4 when we found it. Don’t know if it’ll work for everything for you but it’s what we usually use..

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Mr. Clean (that bald guy) is what I’ve been using for stain removal so after that doesn’t work I’m at a loss. I will look around to see what’s good. My Mother swears by Kaboom but I haven’t tried it yet??

Good luck sweet Kanard!!

...I cherish those which I still have. They mean more to me than my diamonds…

though I know it is nothing you feel like laughing at when you are in the middle of it , surrounded by little “Miss Picasso’s” art work scrolled every where…have you tryed a bit of a scrub with baking soda? Have found it often does the trick for me, and hair spray is great for those spots where they have chosen to use pens, or worse yet , felt pens, ( but always test spot first just in case it takes your paint off with it depending on it’s sheen!!!) Good luck with it , and trust me you will all laugh about this not too far down the road !! ;)

in paint stores. She could have large squares of blackboard paint displayed on her bedroom walls. Then she could be encouraged to just use colored chalk inside the blackboard squares the same way as teachers teach children not to draw outside the lines. The white colored plastic bed can also be repainted in another color, choose one with a heavy matte finish that is difficult to draw on, check with the same paint store. Or what is her favorite cartoon characters that she just worships and cherishes? If she likes Cinderalla and you feel she won’t mark her up, try and place stencils of her favorite characters on the bare walls.

Worse case is to just repaint the walls, the stains may or may not come out but little Miss ‘Picasso’ should not be discouraged to paint or draw when she obviously has talent. try the paint store for blackboard paint and hide all the red markers. Good luck.

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Love,

george :)

Soon after I cleaned the first red decoration of the bed a new one appeared, this time it contained a few purple scribbles, when scolded the Pepa said: Kami did it.
Maybe Kami in a devious attempt to get her sister in trouble had colored the bed Pepi style…but that is too much for a little 5 y/o to think about besides she adores her sister.
So I questioned Kami who said no Pepi did it I only drew a little bit; obviously the purple scribbles were Kami’s; they had more shape and well her favorite color is purple.

When I said WHY daughter WHY??? You know better than to color on furniture…
She said, I know mommy but Pepi had already ruined the bed and it had too much red; it needed purple!
Of course nothing is complete without purple for Kami, she has to have purple ponytails even if her dress is yellow, or purple shoes even if her dress is green…

I can’t rightly recall its name exactly, but it’s something generic like “orange Cleaner” or something like that. It’s made from the oils in the skins of citrus fruit mostly oranges (try squeezing the oil out of an orange peel sometime and drip it onto a foam plate or a styrofoam cup. It will melt. I accidentally discovered this while eating lunch in the college cafeteria once). Because of what it’s made of, it’s biodegradable, and safer than your standard lye based cleaners. It smells great too.

Since I teach art to kids as young as Kindergarten, I have to deal with messes alot. With this orange cleaner, I just spray some on the table, wait a moment or so, and wipe it clean with a paper towel – all gone. It actually disolves the crayon into a wipeable liquid. It even removed old dried on oil or acryllic paint. I’m having the head custodian engineer order me a case of the stuff for use at home.

I’ve never seen it in a store though. If you want the stuff you’ll probably have to get it ordered for you from some institution.

Good old fashioned ammonia works for red/pink stains too. Window cleaner will remove Kool-Aid stains. I learned this one from cleaning up the beverage table after church.

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