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 - Not heard of these before but they look great!

Non tester.. I have never used egg waps in fact I haven't heard of them before this trial.
We tend to paint ours or use food colouring :)

never heard of them before now x

Non tester

I have never heard of egg wraps before. We love to hard boil an egg and decorate it with felt tips pens or paints. Great fun.

Never used egg wraps before but look really good. Although not something that smaller children can really get involved with. We change what we do each Easter although more often than not we blow the eggs first and just decorate the shells- over the past few years we have made "egg soldiers" using toilet rolls and eggs and then decorated with sticky paper, felt etc, we have made egg-heads, drawing faces on the shells and then growing "hair" with cress and have dyed the eggs using food colouring.

Non-Tester

Spotted the egg wraps on sale, definitely hope to purchase some as they appear to be great fun. Failing that (or in addition to that), it will be back to the traditional method of using stickers & felt pens to create our designs.
And we'll have a few special ones - empty egg shell with the top broken off and stuffed with cotton wool and cress seeds. After the face/body is drawn on, sit back and watch the hair grow (i.e. the cress leaves)

Just noticed the user who posted their comment above mine (i.e. Tonkatol) also had the cress 'hair' idea. I did not just copy, I promise ... .... I guess we were typing out our comments at the same time and I took just a little longer to finish writing & posting.

Non - tester

I've not heard of egg wraps! I haven't been very adventurous yet as far as egg decorating goes. So far it's been paint, glitter, maybe some stick on google eyes and feathers! I love the sound of the wraps.

Never heard of egg wraps before but would definitely give them a go, they look great! We're going in fir the classic egg blowing & giving them a paint with whatever we can get our hands on - poster paint, glue, glitter - it's going to get messy!

we have never used them, I was unaware of them, I will look out for them, thanks!

non -tester

Never heard of them to be honest. If not too pricey for 1/2 a dozen i would try.
But i think painting and sticking feathers etc to them is much more fun for kids

Always used to decorate egss with my sons when they were small. Never tried wraps but we just loved painting them with our own random designs. Seems more fun!

Not used before, but here's last years effort...

Not heard of egg wraps before, but definitely something I would try, at easter we usually paint hard boiled eggs, then use them in our easter egg hunt, every boiled egg found is replaced with a chocolate egg, stops anyone munching all the chocolate before lunch :-)

Non-tester

I've never heard of them until now but it seems like a great idea. Anything linking healthy food with things they have positive feelings about. i.e. film characters can only be a good thing.

Non-Tester....

I've not heard of these before, but I would definitely like to try with my son! Xo

Non-testers: We've never used egg wraps just hard boiled them or pin pricked them and then painted them and decorate with stickers

No never tried them! I must live under a rock never heard of them

never heard of the wraps. We normally decorate with food colouring and feathers

Non tester - I'd give the wraps a go. Always up for something new.

We love a bit of egg decorating here. We blow eggs, wash them out with vinegar, and paint them with acrylic paints as they give good coverage. Sometimes just patterns, sometimes ambitious themes - last year year we did a fairy tales collection... not sure my little Red Riding Hood (with wolf on the reverse) was very recognisable but my daughter's Little Mermaid was fab! We hang them up on twigs/branches in a big vase.

We spend less time on hardboiled eggs for rolling - paint or marker pens.

eggs wraps sound like fun for decorating hard boiled eggs.
We like to paint them and then roll them down a hill to see whose is fastest.
We tend to make rice crspy cakes and decorate them with cake decorations and tubes of coloured icing!
It would be good if they made fake sugar eggs and sugar paper wraps you can eat, that would be fun and tasty!

These look fun! They would probably make egg decorating more enticing for my older DS

I once bought some egg wraps in a sale after Easter and promptly forgot about them till I found this thread. They will be at the back of a cupboard with mismatched tupperware containers and lids.
I love decorating eggs. We dye them with onion skins, and do wax patterns on them then dye them and see the patterns emerge like magic. I keep chickens, guinea fowl and geese so we have plenty to practise on. I did try decorating a blown goose egg with beads and braid but it wasn't much like Faberge!!

non tester - These look really good. We use paint, pens and glitter as we roll them, smash them and don't eat those ones anyway.

Non Tester:
I've never heard or seen of them before, but they look fabulous and such fun! We tend to paint or draw on the eggs or use food coloring. I want to look into where I can get those from!