It’s that time of year when all the stores are filled with hollow chocolate bunnies, fake grass and jelly beans. Yep, Easter is approaching and the iconic candies including those famous little animal-shaped marshmallows known as Peeps associated with the holiday are all on sale now.
For the fifth year, the Washington Post challenged its readers to create dioramas using the tasty chicks and bunnies in its annual contest they call the Peeps Show. There’s no candy controversy here. They are all worthy of being finalists.
Many of the finalists used famous movies including “Silence of the Lambs” and “The Wizard of Oz” as their creative starting point. My favorite is the one I posted above. I love the cartoon feel of the conveyor belt sending the cute Peeps to their demise and the way they transitioned from feathery yellow to plucked pink in the course of making Split Peep Soup. Lots of great details involved.
The winner recreated the rescue of the Chilean miners last summer including the wife and mistress of one miner and the reunion of another miner with his newborn child.
There were also two finalists who took on the crotch-patting folks at the TSA.
To see all 36 finalists plus find links to the previous four years’ winners, visit the Washington Post’s Peeps Show.