Note from Cheri: Cooking for Kids comes to Fabulous Foods! This recipe is part of the "Cooking with Beau" series. Beau and his mom (the editor of the Frugal Moms website) like to come up with fun, inexpensive things to make in the kitchen. Beau says children of all ages can have a great time stringing their own edible necklaces by using inexpensive Marshmallow Peeps®. The only problem is, the Peeps® are only available at Easter. Click here for Beau's Easter Peeps® Cupcake recipe. You can visit Beau's Mom's website, Frugal Moms, at http://www.frugal-moms.com. Click here for more great Easter ideas from Fabulous Foods.

strawberry or black shoestring licorice Marshmallow Peeps® in your choice of colors and shapes cereal with holes cocktail pretzels or any other stringable food

Using a skewer or other sharp instrument (an adult should help here), poke holes throughout the sides of the ears of the Bunnies. From here,you can string together many different designs with the stringable food. The necklaces can be tied behind the neck, for a truly sweet fashion statement (if they last long enough). Note: These were lots of fun to make, but messy. Here are some things we came up with to make these necklaces a little easier to handle: To make piercing and stringing the marshmallows easier, grease both the skewer and the licorice strings. Getting the licorice through the hole is difficult for small fingers. We found that the easiest way to deal with this was to "stretch" the hole as we pierced it with the skewer and also stretch it again as we threaded the licorice through. The easiest place to pierce the Peeps was through the bottom of the ears on the bunnies, and through the neck on the chicks. The licorice strings are very fragile, especially when loaded down with Peeps and fruit loops. We simply ate anything that broke. Our mistakes were delicious!