Create a Peeps House This Easter – It’s a Fun & Easy Family Craft!
Make a Peep house for Easter using the popular marshmallow treat. These Easter gingerbread houses are the perfect DIY holiday craft!
Looking for a fun, creative, and edible kids’ craft this Easter?
These homemade Easter gingerbread houses using Peeps marshmallows are such a fun activity to do with kids or friends and family. The process is very similar to making gingerbread houses for Christmas, except we’re using cute Easter candy!
Follow along to make a Peep house of your own!
How to make a Peep house for Easter.
Only some simple, inexpensive supplies are required for this fun kids craft!
You’ll need some graham crackers, Easter candy like Peeps, sprinkles, and (most importantly) a thick icing to act as your “glue” when constructing your Peep house. I used a tube of Wilton decorating icing, and that worked nicely. It needs to dry hard and thick to hold the houses together.
Give your Easter Peep house some grass with shredded coconut!
This edible grass is completely optional, but it’s so easy and fun to make.
First, I added about a cup of shredded coconut to a plastic baggie. Then, I mixed up a teaspoon of water with two drops of green food coloring. Add the water/food coloring mixture to the baggie, shake up the contents, and the shredded coconut will take on a nice green color. You can then use this “grass” for your Peeps houses!
Easter Peep houses under construction…
Make the base of your Peep house first by using frosting to stick the three walls and base together, as shown above, and then let that dry/set for a few minutes. Then, attach the pitched roof to the top. Finally, you can embellish your houses with coconut grass, Peeps, Easter candy, etc. So fun and easy to create!
Hip Tip: Make sure to use lightweight/small candy or sprinkles to decorate the roof, or it could cave in. I had that happen with heavier candy. 😆
How To Make A Peep House for Easter
PrintSupplies Needed
- graham crackers (about 3 full sized crackers per house)
- thick cookie icing in white
- sprinkles or small candies for embellishments
- Peeps marshmallow candy
- shredded coconut (dyed green)
- Easter egg candy or jelly beans
Directions
1
Break apart 3 graham cracker sheets in half, so you have 6 square pieces.
2
Use icing to “glue” four pieces together to form the base of house. Lay one square cracker flat, and then glue three sides to base square. Let dry/set for a few minutes.
3
Use icing to make a pitched roof and attach to top of house.
4
Let house dry/set for a few more minutes. Place shredded coconut, Peeps, and jelly beans inside house to embellish. You can also use small candy or sprinkles to decorate the outside using additional icing.
Chillin’ with my Peeps!
Oh my goodness…these Peeps crafts turned out so CUTE. I love this as a fun Easter tabletop display on a tray as I’ve done in the photo above.
It would be great to have this as a kids’ craft station at your family’s Easter gathering. They’ll love making crafts with Peeps that can serve as an activity, a cute display and a snack!
Thank you, Lina for another creative idea! This is so cute! I feel bad if they got eaten 😉
Oh thanks so much! Funny you say that – as our dog got up on the counter and ate these 😳🙈 ha
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!
FYI
You can buy royal icing in a container like glue. Easy for kiddos to use. You can get at Micheals and use coupons. Works great when doing any kind of food construction.
This is such a cute idea! My kids are going to love this!
Oh have fun! Thanks for stopping by!
Really cute idea!
Thanks so much!
Thx Lina, great project for my 2 boys on Easter break. You have the best ideas. Keep up the good work and God bless.
Aw thanks so much Babymair- love your sweet comments ❤️
So cute! Showed these pics to my kids and they want to make them. Fun!
Oh yay! Have so much fun Sandy!
Such a cute idea!! Thanks!My sweet little boy will love making these with me and his daddy
Have so much fun! Thanks for stopping by <3
Peeps in the microwave is FUN. 😁
Yes, and after Easter we always roast our leftover peeps over a campfire. They are so delicious, if you don’t burn them! They get a nice caramel flavor that resembles creme brûlée on the outside and gooey marshmallow centers. However, it does look kinda morbid when cute little chick or rabbit goes up in flames, lol.
I can’t wait to do this with the kids!
Oh my word this is so cute! I’m thinking of making these with my preschool class… just wondering what kind of “glue” works best to hold everything together…
Thank you for all you do! Love seeing all your clever ideas!!
Oh thanks so much! You may want to make a batch of royal icing like this one for gingerbread houses 🙂 https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/gingerbread-house-icing/
Cute idea!
Thanks so much!
Thank you for posting!!! I think we are going to do this at work with our employees! We try to do something fun each holiday to break up the work day. I think they will get a kick out of it! Thanks so much!!!!!
Oh that’s such a fun idea! I bet they will! Send us pics if you do! ❤️
I use a hot glue gun to built Gingerbread Houses for the children to decorate. They are not going to eat them anyway. Can’t wait hot glue these ahead of time for grandchildren to decorate.
Oh that’s fun – thanks for sharing 👍
This is such a great idea!!!! Perfect for Gingerbread Houses on the cheap too!! 👍🏻
Yes exactly! Thanks for stopping by!
So happy to someone finally addressing the growing problem of Peeps homelessness. It’s an underreported tragedy. 😀
We get the Christmas and valentine gingerbread houses cheap after the holiday and store them till Easter and decorate them with Peeps
Great idea, Angela! 🙌 Thanks for sharing how you make Peep houses! 🐰❤️