Need to Paint White Bed!! SOS!

Try the Magic Eraser. It really is a miracle worker on stuff like this.

The other thing that sometimes works, is WD-40, but try it in an inconspicuous place first, just in case it goes through the finish.

Good Luck.

Prayer is good, but I don't know if the Holy Water will clean up the mess.

You have some good suggestions already. Or call your nearest paint store and ask. This won't be the first time they've heard this story! Let them know what sort of artistic tools were used on the bed (even the brand). Wood furniture can be painted, but you'd want to sand it first, and then apply a coat or two of Kilz or some other hiding primer. Otherwise the, um, decorative elements could bleed right through the paint.

And then give your children some crayons (not markers) and a roll of kraft paper, and tell them that furniture is off limits. Bet you've done that already. :^)

Well if it is wood, you can sand it down and paint it, although I would use a foam roller so you get a really nice smooth finish and not spray paint. You'll want to prime first or try to remove as much of whatever they used to write on it as possible so it won't bleed through the paint, but i paint furniture all the time for one reason or another and it's simple enough.

Have you worked on it with a Magic Eraser yet? I haven't found anything that I haven't been able to take off with that! It may take a bit of the luster off the finish, but I've had good luck with wax to shine painted furniture up again.

A regular pencil eraser will remove permanent marker from non-porous surfaces.

Need more details to advise on other types of writing mediums :)

Magic erasers are magic!

Painting it will take lots of elbow work and patience, sanding & painting, sanding & painting and matching "white" is harder than you realize.

Good Luck - a solution does exist.

M. F

spray hairspray on it and rub. i swear it works. my daughter used to write on things all the time

What did they write over it with? I assume you have tried to clean it off? Scrub it off? If it's stained and not coming off I suggest sanding it down and then painting it.

Sorry to hear about this!

I vote for Magic Eraser, as light as you can. My daughter has a white table (I spray painted it white) that she loves to write on, and magic eraser does it. you have to keep rinsing it out. Works great on marker and pencil. Takes out ballpoint ink, but we haven't had any really dug in.

My daughter decided to scribble all over her white crib. And not with the water markers or even a crayon. It HAD to be a regular ball point pen. Nothing got that off until I used a magic eraser very gently. It can take the paint off.
If the bed is one of those with the "ribbons", painting it might not look so hot.

If it is marker or pen - hairspray will take it out.
It will take more than one application and a lot of rubbing with a soft cloth...
I would make the kids work on getting it out. You spray, they rub.
LBC

I think that I would be inclined to try the Mr. Clean magic eraser before paint. Ooh....it will be really hard to get a finish as nice as the factory finish. I have had good luck painting furniture, cabinetry etc. with a paint product called "break through", I previously bought it at Barley's paint in Naples. It is an industrial paint that is not water based, but is "water thinnable" if that makes sense. I have even painted Formica cabinetry with it twice...followed the directions that I was given to a "T" and had no problem with it....no brush or roller marks, no chipping, fading, peeling, even after oven cleaner was dripped on it once! For the Formica cabinets, what I was told to so, and what I did was, lightly sand the surface with the finest sandpaper or steel wool. Wipe all surfaces with "xylene"...to remove all traces of finger grease, dust particles etc... Handling with rubber gloves only...lay everything out flat. Thin the Break Through paint by 1/3 with water. Use the smallest nap (usually red) roller that you can buy, wet the roller and make a few passes on some newspaper first to "blot" the roller...thinned paint will bubble and pool very easily. Apply thin even coats to all surfaces to be painted. It dries very fast...when I was doing my kitchen cabinets with it, I had 30 doors and drawer fronts to do, and by the time that I was finished with the last...the first was dry and ready to re-coat. The paint will be thin at first and you will still see the coloring for the first coat or two...I could still see my horrid yellow Formica until I was on my 3rd coat, and my bff's horrid blue Formica the same! Maybe you would want to take some time off at this point and come back to re-coat later that day or the next day, but apply as many coats as it takes, allowing to dry properly between coats and you will be pleased with the results if you follow these directions and do a good job prepping the items. Break Through might be hard to find but it is definitely worth the effort, and a little goes a long way, and it wears like iron..soft scrub, oven cleaner etc doesn't phase the finish a bit. When I bought it at Barley's so long ago I only bought a quart and did my whole kitchen with 4 coats and still had left over. When I helped my friend do her blue kitchen over, they only sold it by the gallon....and we had way way more than needed, but she loved the outcome too! Good luck!