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Candy Bar
Ice Cream Float Bar
In addition to the vanilla ice cream tub, I kept the colorful cans of soda cold, by nesting them in a shallow tray surrounded by ice. I set up the kids’ cups in advance to the party so that the Float Bar would truly be DIY. Twizzlers wound around each party pick and silly straw too! I don’t know who I noticed making their own floats more – the kids, or their parents!
The Candy Cake
I purchased a cake for the family at Costco for only $18 and decorated it with handmade pennant banners and cute ice cream pick decorations I found at Hobby Lobby. The sticks holding up the pennant flags were just candy mold sticks from the craft store, intertwined with super thin, hot pink ribbon. Cute, right??
The Favors
I left out cute, paper bags and personalized seals (like the one in the mood board above) at the Candy Bar for each child to make their own candy bag…they had a lot of fun with this!
The Menu
The time of the party was in between lunch and dinner and was only set for a few hours, so I decided it would be best to pre-cook, assemble and foil-wrap as many hot dogs as possible. This was inexpensive as well as low-maintenance…everyone just helped themselves all day while they stayed steamed in a giant slow-cooker. A pasta salad, mini bags of organic snack mix and giant dill pickles were the simple sides that were served.
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