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20 Things to Make with Peeps

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For my family, it’s not Easter without lots of Peeps!

In addition to being delicious on their own, we love using Peeps to make cute Easter party food. In past years, I’ve made Peep fruit kabobs, chocolate dipped peeps, and Peeps cake. When looking for ideas to try this year, I found a roundup of “20 Things to Make with Peeps” from How Does She. I’m thinking I might have to try their Peeps Easter basket idea for my 11-year-old, since he’s getting to the age where it’s hard to find stuff he likes for Easter.

Did you know that peeps were originally made by hand? Taking a total time of 26 hours to complete the full process (cooling time). Now it takes less than 6 minutes. The Peeps company now make over 5 million each Easter Peeps a day in a variety of shapes and colours. They also seem to come out for every occasion and season making them no longer a yellow chick for Easter. Originally that had wings but the wings were removed to streamline to making process. 

Are you all excited about Easter Peeps now? Want to make your own DIY Peep crafts? We have a blog full of DIY Peep-themed Easter Crafts and tutorials and you can see them all here.  Easter Peep Crafts & Tutorials

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

  • Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
  • NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
  • Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
  • The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]