Easter is on April 9, which means stores are stocked up holiday candy.

You know what that means: It’s time to add a pack of Peeps to your shopping cart so you can enter the annual Pioneer Press Peeps Diorama Contest.

To enter, make a diorama of any size featuring marshmallow Peeps. The theme is wide open, as is our tradition — anything from current affairs to historical events, daily life, celebrities, religion, art or sports, movies or books … but the judges prefer family-friendly entries.

Ultimately, it’s your creativity we want to showcase, as we’ve done since 2004. Some people create their scenes in shoeboxes, but you don’t have to do so.

When your marshmallow masterpiece is complete, take a photo of the diorama and email it to peeps@ pioneerpress.com.

In your email, please be sure to include the name, phone and email address of the creator or creators — in addition to their city of residence — so that we may contact them if needed. If the creator is 12 or younger, make sure you tell us in order to be eligible for the youth prize (and include an adult’s name and contact info).

Also, please tell us about your artistic process — inspiration, methods, near-disasters — so we can share your genius with the world.

The deadline to email photos of the diorama entries is 5 p.m. on Friday, March 31.

Winners will be chosen by a team of judges at the Pioneer Press.

We will feature the winning dioramas in the Easter Sunday edition of the Pioneer Press on April 9.

Questions? Email peeps@ pioneerpress.com.