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

wow never heard of these! life gets so much more exciting when you have kids! love finding these new things

Non tester.
No, haven't used egg wraps before - I'd never heard of them! They look fab though.
We decorate eggs using felt tips, small stickers, stick on googly eyes and good old PVA glue to stick on wool for hair.

we always decorate our eggs with coloured food dye and white crayons

Never even thought about doing this before. Might give it a go this year. Kids will love it!!

Non Tester:
I've never heard of these. Not sure I'd use them.
We like dying eggs with onion skins and also painting them.

I've never used them before but they sound like a great idea!

I haven't used them, but we put glue all over an egg and roll it in glitter. They look beautiful

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?

I have not used these particular ones but have use some that my parents got me from abroad before. They worked well and looked effective. They are a nice way to make an egg look special

non tester - these are fab would love to share :)

Okay... Don't know where I've been but we've never used egg wraps before. We are definitely going to now - they're fab! We have decorated eggs just using paints and glitter, tissue paper etc lots of times though!

Non-Tester

They look great. Will definitely think of getting some.

I have not used these wraps before but looking at the pictures on this thread they look really good fun. We usually do a mottling effect on our Easter eggs with ink and then add Google eyes and hair and a face.
I have shown my docs the pictures on here and we're off to buy some now!

Non Tester

I like to decorate eggs occasionally with my DCs to get them interested in eating eggs and to spice up meal times. I'm not brave enough to just use ordinary felt tip, so use edible food pens to draw faces/decorations on then add glitter which is stuck on with sugary water.
Loads of fun for all the family!

We normally just buy in eggs, would love to do some decorating though - the wraps sound brilliant!

Non Tester. just use the usual felt-tips, glitter and food colouring

Non-tester.
We've had egg wraps before, a few years back. Slightly different to how these look though, they were a thick band to go across the middle but didn't cover the whole egg, so you could still eat a boiled one. We had thomas the tank engine ones, I think. They were ok, provided a few minutes of entertainment, but not really worth it in the end.
For decorating eggs now we use metallic marbling paint, makes a fab effect. Or stick stickers and bits on (the younger one) and colour it in with pens.

I've never heard of egg wraps, but I would love to try one! :)

I'd never even heard of them before but they look brilliant! We never really decorate our eggs but this has made me think maybe we will this year. We do usually make Easter goodies though so he's not completely deprived I promise!

Non-tester. Have never heard of egg wraps but will look out for them. Grandchildren and I usually decorate hard boiled eggs with felt tip pens then glue bits and bobs on that we have collected on our walks :)

Non-tester
I'd never heard of them until reading this thread! They look amazing... where have they been all my life?! I will definitely be doing some this Easter!

These look cool. We normally just use felt tip pens to draw funny faces on them. Going to try dye this year though.

Decorated eggs in a lots of different ways starting from food colours and stickers to batique with wax and simple painting with gouache paints.

Non-tester

That sounds very awesome and something I wish they had when I was young lol. We'll be decorating using the normal glitter, glue and colouring pens, so it'll be fun all the same.

I haven't heard of these before but they sound like a great crafting idea for the little ones. We don't usually decorate eggs but I might try these.

Never used egg wraps before, but my kids really want them after seeing the tester's pictures posted on this thread - I think it was the minions that did it!
They look like a good idea.

In the past we usually just use felt tips and glitter glue to make our own faces or patterns on the eggs.