Decorating Easter eggs with children

[SilentBoob]

I need to decorate some hard boiled eggs with my children (aged 5 and 3).

Anyone got any good ideas to share?

Something simple but effective?

It's probably difficult to find Easter egg paints in UK, where I'm from egg painting is big thing and shop and supermarkets are full of paint sets. My parents usually send my kids some every year. Egg paints are good as it's ok to eat the eggs after painting.
My grandma used colorful wool- wrap some different colours around the egg and then boil the eggs like that. When cooled then unwrap. She did same with onion skins, then the eggs come out quite brown but you get patterns on them. Using red onion skins you get purpley patterns.
Also you could get those multi purpose markers, the ones you can use on canvas and stuff. But not sure if the eggs are safe to eat after..

What age are your children? My son is 5, and we're going to paint Superheroes on our eggs. (I've hollowed the eggs first and used them for Scrambled eggs).

For smaller children, you could just get lots of paint, and paint stripes or patterns on the eggs. That's effective.

If you have silk ties you no longer want, wrap the egg in a piece of tie (silky side towards the egg), then put rubber band around to keep in place, then put in white cotton fabric and wrap with rubber band again. Place in saucepan and boil for 20 minutes. The egg comes out with the pattern of the tie. Beautiful.