No matter how hard I try to make sure that markers are out of the reach of my 2 year old son he always seems to find one somewhere! He drew on my nice white night stand with a black permanent marker a few weeks ago and I have been trying to find anything that will get it out. My sister was over when I discovered he drew on the night stand and she said to hurry and spray hairspray on it and scrub at it, which helped a LOT but it didn't get it out. So the next time we went to the store I bought a Magic Eraser to try and get out the rest of it. It got out some of it but not all of it. You could still see a lot of the marker.
Well today my son found a permanent marker AGAIN and drew on my daughter's white bed. He also drew on her bed with a blue Dry Erase Marker. I hurried and grabbed the magic eraser and scrubbed at it. I then noticed that where he drew the dry erase marker on top of the permanent marker came out a lot easier. Then the thought came to me that when someone accidentally writes with a permanent marker on a white board that all you do is color over the permanent marker with a dry erase maker and wipe it off and it comes right off. I thought that maybe that would work in this case. So I took the dry erase marker and colored over the scribbles on my daughter bed and then took the magic eraser and started to scrub where the marker was and it came out really well!
I decided to try this on my night stand that he colored on a few weeks ago. This is the process of what I did to get the marker out of my night stand:
*Now, it didn't get it completely out but it is SO light that you don't notice it unless you are looking for it.*
I think that the reason why on my daughters bed it came right out so well and why it didn't come complete out of my night stand is because I did this process minutes after my son had drawn on my daughter's bed. I think it will work better if you do this minutes after the marker is drawn on the surface. I haven't tried it on different surfaces but I would assume it would work just fine. Here is the before and after picture:
