See what Mumsnetters thought of Universal’s Decorative Egg Wraps and tell Universal how you decorate your Easter eggs - £150 voucher prize draw for non-testers!*NOW CLOSED*

[MichelleMumsnet]

This thread is for the 15 Mumsnetters who tried Universal’s Decorative Egg Wraps with their DCs.

Here’s what Universal say, “These shrink to fit Egg Wraps featuring your favourite movie characters the Minions, E.T. and E.B. The Easter Bunny are great fun to watch – place one around a medium hard boiled egg, add to boiling water and they will shrink around the egg to make a cool Easter breakfast or the basis for movie themed Easter Egg hunt! Better yet, these wraps are free with selected kids DVD’s starting from just £3. Titles include Despicable Me, Hop, Coraline, Moshi Monsters, Mr Bean and Curious George and many more.”

Non-testers: Have you ever used Egg Wraps before with your DCs? If so, what did you think of them? If not, do you decorate Easter eggs in another way with your DCs?

Everyone who adds their comments to the thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £150 John Lewis voucher!

Testers: We’d like you to answer the questions below but please feel free to add any other thoughts you may have.

1. What were your overall impressions of the Egg Wraps? Did you like them, or not? What did your DCs think?
2. Which Egg Wrap was your favourite? Why?
3. Can you describe to other Mumsnetters how you had to use the Egg Wraps? Did you find the overall process easy, or not?
4. Do you think you’d recommend them to friends and/or family if it came up in conversation? If so, why? If not, why not?
5. Do you think you’d use them again? If so, why? If not, why not?

Please also post a picture of your decorated eggs on this thread so that other Mumsnetters can see what you’ve made .

Everyone who posts their feedback and picture on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky Mumsnetter will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher!

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

Non-tester,
We are quite traditional and use paints and glitter. I had never heard of egg wraps and would love to try them...if I ever see them for sale!

I've never used egg wraps and never decorated an egg before. It's not really something I would do. None of us eat boiled eggs, and we never do blown eggs and decorate them. Would the dunking in boiling water even work with empty shells for easter. Kids are too young and heavy-handed for blown eggs at Easter.

Not something I've got involved in but they have at school

When I was at primary school we always decorated an egg as a character some of them were amazing

Nope! I've never heard of this before but they look fantastic

Never used the wraps but they sound interesting!

Dd has decided to decorate her egg using stickers this year... I'm waiting for the meltdown!
Normally we do cress heads and decorate!

Non-Tester. I'd never heard of egg wraps - they sound fantastic. We've only ever decorated eggs with food colouring if we were going to eat them, or blown eggs with paint.

Look great. Never heard of them before.

non-tester

First time Ive heard of these, its a great idea to get small ones involved for easter, they should be free with character chocolate easter eggs. In my house we usually use feathers, paint and bobbly eyes, lolly sticks, whatever I can find really.

I have never heard of egg wraps before this. We just paint boiled eggs as per tradition. I like the handmade look and the nostalgia from childhood. Not sure the egg wraps give the same effect.

we used to use felt itips, it worked as good as anything

Never heard of egg wraps. We make our own easter eggs using chocolate moulds from my childhood, and then decorate using writing icing

Non-tester

I really wanted to apply but my DDs were not the right age. Despite being too old, they would still really enjoy these.

Can you buy them without the DVDs?

Non-Tester.

1. Have you ever used Egg Wraps before with your DCs?

No. I've also never heard of one until I read this.

1. If not, do you decorate Easter eggs in another way with your DCs?

We boil eggs and decorate them. Reminds me of being back at Primary School!

Non tester

I've never heard of wraps for Eggs before but they look like a great idea, we'll definitely be trying them out :)

Non-tester:

I have never used Egg Wraps before although I have seen something similar advertised - more traditional designs though rather than up-to-date characters. I think they look really good, especially for easter egg hunts.

We normally just paint them, although might get a bit more inventive this year.

Non-tester:

I hadn't heard of egg wraps before, but they look really effective and I'm sure would be very popular with kids. However, I much prefer to get 'stuck in' and a bit messy with paints, glue, feathers and the requisite googly eyes with both my DDs (2 & 4). I'm not sure if the process of applying the egg wraps are as 'interactive' as enabling my DDs to use their imagination to make up their own designs :)

non-tester
Haven't heard of these, but they look like something DD would find fun, so will look out for them (and if they get her to try a new food it would be a bonus!)

Never heard of them but they look fab!

We did the decorate an egg thing last year and oh what a nightmare. We tried painting them!! Never again!! Lol

non tester
haven't heard of these before we will be using pens and stick on eyes

Non-tester

I've not used egg wraps before but think I will now as my three-year-old is obsessed with minions and would adore minion eggs! In the past when I have decorated eggs with my children, we've painted them and stuck things on with glue!

Never heard of these but I'm definitely going to find some and try them, they sound amazing. In terms of egg decorating, we just boil the eggs in the pan and decorate them with paint. After the paint has dried, we spread some butter over the egg to make it shine.

Never heard of these before, we tend to use whatever we have to hand crayons or paints, sequins buttons its great fun

non-tester
I've never heard of egg wraps before this survey

They look fun- though I'd prefer ones without licensed characters on.

I've done tie-dye style eggs before with rubber bands and food colouring