How to remove permenant marker stains from most surfaces! (sharpie pen)

Well today, as my 2 year old daughter was playing in her (what i thought was very baby proofed bedroom) she came across a purple sharpie permant marker and proceeded to color all over every surface in her room. Her light pink hello kitty tv, the screen, the window glass and seal, a few books, and on my mothers antique bed side table! Dont panic if this happens to you! Here's how i handled it!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Patience
• Mr. Clean magic eraser
• regular pencil eraser

1. Purchase a Mr.Clean Magic Eraser, ( only a few dollars for several) or walmart makes an off brand version.

2. Wet the sponge, wring out the excess water and wipe marker off all surfaces! It gets almost everything!

3. The magic eraser should work and remove the stain, but if you can still see any trace of the stain, after it dries, take a regular rubber pencil eraser and go over the stain! That should take care of it and know one will ever even know it was there! :) Good luck! I know i was relieved!!

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure their are absolutly no markers where you are not aware of! (lol)
• If you do think your child has swallowed ink, call your doctor or poison control center.

[meridians]

on 9/20/2009 Great tip - thanks

[makaksa]

on 6/18/2009 Good to know! My 20 month old has discovered the joys of writing so this information may be useful for us.