Share your confectionery creativity using Peeps and win $100

What would Easter be without Peeps, those neon-colored sugar-and-gelatin icons of spring? (And now you can get valentine and Halloween and even Christmas Peeps.)

Despite conventional wisdom to the contrary, some people do eat them, we've heard. But it seems that many more people play with their Peeps; Google "microwave" and "Peeps" and you'll get 197,000 hits that mostly deal with exploding, erupting or melting Peeps.

Not that we're suggesting anything so ... well ... violent for this beloved confectionery creation. All we're asking you to do is create with your Peeps.

That's right, create a Peeps diorama, dress up your Peeps or line up a procession of Peeps. We can think of less fun ways to win $100, which is the prize in the Review-Journal Parade of Peeps contest.

There are few rules for this Peeps proposition. You can use any materials, and make your Peeps creation any size. You can use Easter-themed Peeps, which are in stores now, but if you happen to have a box of Halloween Peeps lingering in the pantry, knock yourself out.

All you have to do is bring your creation to the R-J office at 1111 W. Bonanza Road between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on March 4. Attach your name, age, daytime phone number and a description -- in 50 words or less -- of what you created and why.

The entries will be judged on the basis of creativity and originality. Peeps portraits will be published in the Living section on Easter Day, March 23.

We'd love to tell you to get cracking, but we don't think that would work.