Our Peeps diorama contest winners for 2024

Okay, it’s happening. Everybody stay calm! The wait is over, The Washington Post’s annual Peeps diorama contest is back, and this year’s entries have us on one heck of a sugar high. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, these Peeps dioramas are worth … well, maybe we’ll leave those calculations to you.

From Taylor Swift’s Peeps era to Peepenheimer and Marshmallow Madness, some of the sweetest cultural moments that brought us all together this past year are now represented in marshmallow form. Finally!

To everyone who entered: We appreciate you, we admire your creativity and we are not liable for any stomachaches.

If you’re new here, welcome! The year 2007 gave us two powerful, almost inconceivably advanced manifestations of the human imagination: the iPhone and The Washington Post Peeps diorama contest. Since then, people of all ages, from countries around the world, have created heartwarming, and occasionally terrifying, marshmallow creations. After it was discontinued in 2017, The Post revived the concept on TikTok in 2021, introducing a new generation to the fun.

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Since then, The Washington Post TikTok team, now The Washington Post Universe, has expanded to YouTube and Instagram, and this contest has grown along with us. This year, we saw twice as many submissions as our community continues to grow.

Here are some of our favorites, capping off with this year’s winners.

We had three Taylor Swift themed dioramas.

This one had an outfit change.

Two “Oppenheimer” submissions.

Luckily, both sets made goggles for our brave Peeps.

Three Barbie-themed submissions

Including this very detailed Barbie Dreamhouse.

Judges appreciated the dioramas with really detailed backgrounds. Such as “Jeopardy!”

I’ll take “too much free time” for $800, Ken.

And Woodridge Peeps Pickleball.

Judges appreciated this shameless self-promotion.

Andy Cohen would be proud to host “The Real HousePeeps.”

This captions in the videos really made this one great.

Judges loved this presentation of Mummified Peeps.

Thanks for submitting once again, Mackenzie!

There were many more great submissions submitted on TikTok (shout-out to the reveal on Peepzilla), as well as this very sobering entry uploaded to TikTok and YouTube.

Now, for our winners!

3rd place: Peepception

“Peep-ception” took it to the next level.

2nd place: Marchmallow Madness

A very timely Sweet 16 diorama with its own logos!

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