"Peeps in Paradise," a cruise ship featuring PEEPS® playing shuffleboard and sun bathing, and "Peeps Rock New York," a PEEPS®-filled depiction of New York City's Rockefeller Center, took top honors at the 2013 PEEPS® Diorama Competition during December's PEEPSFEST™, the family festival presented by Just Born Quality Confections and ArtsQuest . Nearly 100 dioramas incorporating PEEPS® candy were created by area school children and were on display during the event, which took place at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.

"Peeps in Paradise," created by St. Joseph the Worker fifth-grade students Ashleigh Meskill, Clara Krohn, Tess Horn and Joy Wetzel, was named the "PEEP-les Choice" winner based on voting at the festival, while "Peeps Rock New York," (above photo) done by St. Joseph the Worker third-graders Emily Billig, Mae Cook, Morgan Dobil and Julianna Hahn, was named "Best in Show" by the official PEEPSFEST® judging panel. Both groups of students won PEEPS & COMPANY® Gift Bags and were invited to help drop the giant PEEPS® Chick on New Year's Eve to count down the coming of the New Year. The first-place winners and "PEEP-les Choice" dioramas will also be displayed during the coming year at the Just Born Quality Confections exhibit at the Sigal Museum in Easton.

Diorama competition winners are:

K-Grade 2: 1st, Angry Peeps Star Wars Calypso ES, Bethlehem, Trisha Moller, Mike Fraboni, Aidan Fraboni; 2nd, Peeps Sleigh, Calypso ES, K - Alexander Koch; 3rd, Peep Ground, Asa Packer ES, Bethlehem, Michelle Ortiz, Xavier Riddle, Henry Leap

Grades 3-5: 1st, Peeps Rock New York, St. Joseph the Worker ES, Orefield; 2nd, Peeps in Paradise, St. Joseph the Worker ES; 3rd, Christmas Living Room St. Elizabeth Regional School, Whitehall, Trey Kelly, Nick Tran, Michael Gittens, Leo Schaler

Grade 6: 1st, Peep Hill Christmas Tree Farm St. Joseph the Worker ES, Kelsey Rodowicz, Alex Hallingstand, Erica Lincoln; 2nd, Peep Dollhouse, St. Elizabeth Regional School, Wilma Taveras, Briana Perez; 3rd, Christmas with Spongepeep - Broughal MS, Bethlehem

Grades 7-12: 1st, Peeps Around the World, St. Anne School, Emmaus; 2nd, Nightmare Before Christmas Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Bethlehem, Olivia Brandt, Ana DaSilva, Lauren Lopez, Natasha Miner, Courtney Truskolasky; 3rd, An Authentic Peep Art Design, St. Joseph the Worker ES, Danica Schafer

PEEPSFEST™ 2014 is set for Dec. 30-31 at SteelStacks. For more information, visit www.artsquest.org/peepsfest.