Peeps – love ’em or hate ’em you have to admit they’re pretty cute.
They’ve grown beyond the original little yellow chicks and now at Easter time you can find bunnies, birds of all colors and more. While you could be boring and just eat them, they can also be used for all sorts of fun Easter activities.
Kids of all ages will love building these easy little Peeps houses. They are absolutely adorable and they’re a great way to use any extra Easter candy from all those egg hunts. You can make them at a school party, a family get together or even as an activity one weekend or over Spring Break.
Building Peeps Easter Houses
Kids will come up with all sorts of ways to design and customize their own Peeps houses, but here’s a little tip I’ve learned after hosting a few gingerbread decorating parties. Little kids do better when the graham cracker houses are built with a glue gun rather than icing. They’re more durable for little hands. And, we don’t “eat” our houses, we mainly use them as fun holiday decor and snack on plenty of treats while we’re working.
Now, we do still mix up powdered sugar with enough water to make icing and food coloring, so there is “glue” to attach the candy.
You can choose whatever candies that are your family favorites or that you have extra of from various Easter gatherings. Spread the icing over the graham crackers and give it a minute or so to get tacky and then start sticking on the candy.
The “grass” is actually candy too, that you can find at your local Target or Walmart or else it’s also available on Amazon.com.
Let kids get creative. You might have two story peep condos, a peep treehouse, heck the peeps could even get their very own castle. My girls came up with a few ideas for chicken coops and I built them in just a few minutes and then they got busy decorating!
This kept everyone busy for about an hour! They kept adding elements and creating stories for the Peeps and made sure the chicks and bunnies were visiting one another’s houses.
Sidebar: this child cannot take a normal picture…..
If you liked this post and want some other great Easter activities check out these posts:
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Alright, so it’s time to get busy building those Peeps houses. Come back and tells us what creations your kids come up with, we can’t wait!!!
Katherine G says
This is such a cute idea! I know some kids who would love this.
T'onna @ USS Crafty says
Now this looks like fun! I wish I would’ve thought of doing something like this with my daughter!
Ashley ~ 3 Little Greenwoods says
This is a perfect Spring Break activity! LOVE this! Pinning and sharing!
Laurie says
Such a fun thing to do with the kiddos!
Thank you for sharing with us at Brag About It!
~Laurie
Erika says
What a cute idea for kids 🙂 Thank you for linking up at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop!!
Erika
gloria kersh says
Such a cute project to do with kids!!!!
Tove Maren says
I LOVE THESE – but I would eat them all! Your kids are SOOOO cute – spunky and fun!
Nicole Keener says
This looks like a lot of fun, definitely putting this on my list.
Jess says
Oh gosh! This is too cute! 🙂
Thanks for joining the Link Up this week!
Joy @ Joy Love Food says
These are so cute! My kids would love making them, pinning. Thanks for sharing at What’d You Do This Weekend!
Logan Can says
This is so cute and creative! Your little girl is too cute!
Diana Rambles says
So cute!!
Kristen @ A Mind Full Mom says
This is TOTALLY up my alley. I think I know exactly what my kids will be doing on this rainy afternoon!
Amy at Mom's Magical Miles says
Adorable! And a good use of the graham crackers that my people always want me to buy, but never seem to want to actually eat!
Madaline says
The cuteness of these is killing me. It makes me SO sad we don’t have Peep’s here in Italy so that I can pass on the sugary tradition of them at easter!
Kira Lewis says
Really, they don’t have them in Italy? Maybe you can order them from Amazon. 😉
aimee fauci says
These are so cute. I’ve made Gingerbread houses out of graham crackers but nothing like this.
Stephanie of The TipToe Fairy says
Cutest idea ever! My kids will go nuts for this, and we have a million PEEPS right now!