When our eldest was younger, much younger than today ;) we went through a period, as many a parent will recognise, of the walls of the house being marked with a pen. Child is in the other room, they are too quiet and you go to see what they are doing, to be greeted by markings on the wall. Always seems worse if you have just papered or painted the wall.
So we gave our boy a writing wall. The wall in his bedroom by the bed was painted bright white and he was given the go ahead to write on it as much as he desired. The flip side was that he was not allowed to write on any other wall in the house, ever.
It served its purpose brilliantly. He took to his wall with gusto, pens/pencils/colouring pens. It stayed for about 18 months until he no longer was writing on the wall. We painted over and the wall was restored to its previously unmarked state. He, as they all do, grew out of writing on walls, seemed to grow out of writing altogether at one stage.
Mainly though the rest of the house was pen free and he kept his artistic licence within the domain of his room.
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