Are you looking for unique ideas to display candy at your graduation party? Here are the best graduation candy bar ideas you can copy!
The infamous graduation party that celebrates this big day requires a decent amount of brainstorming and preparation beforehand.
After all, there are so many moving parts to think about.
When considering what details to include in the party, don’t skate over the power graduation candy bar ideas!
Here are a few options to peruse so you can plan how to style and what exactly to buy.
GRADUATION CANDY BAR IDEAS
1. Include Chocolate Treats
Willy Wonka once said, “Everything in this room is eatable.”
While that might not be true for the graduation party, setting up a chocolate bar is sure to have the same effect.
If your graduate is missing a sweet tooth and instead is a self-proclaimed chocolate fanatic, use this example as a blueprint.
Pick up a pack that includes everything: chocolate bars, sphere-like Ferrero Rochers, pebbly M&Ms, etc.
2. Choose a Color as a Theme
During graduation season, tapping into a predestined color palette is a simple way to achieve a put-together look.
All you have to do is base your decorative (and candy) choices on the school colors.
The great thing about candy is that it doesn’t lack a colorful quality, so this option is an easy win.
3. Pair it With a Soda Bar
A soda bar is an old-fashioned and unique element to add to a graduation party.
To prepare the ultimate soda bar, provide both vanilla and cherry syrups for guests to add to their Coca-Colas and Dr. Peppers.
Allow people to garnish the pop with striped straws, limes, lemons and cherries.
Add an option to make it a root beer float by including ice cream!
4. One Smart Cookie Bar
Ah, don’t we all love a play on words.
Celebrate your smart little cookie with the gift of a cookie bar.
You can make some or all of the cookies homemade, but no one is judging you if you want to purchase custom cookies from Etsy.
Besides, going with store bought might open up your options for the kind of cookies you can include at the station.
5. Display Some Fruit on Your Candy Bar
Sometimes the sugary options offered at graduation parties end up making everyone feel plain old disgusting.
Although it may seem boring, everyone will thank you for including a few pieces of fruit to balance out the candy bar.
Bonus: just as spring is the season for graduates, it is also the time for fruit to be at its maximum tastiness!
Read: 18 Insanely Good Graduation Dessert Tables
6. Make a DIY Banner
Creating a banner by hand to add to your graduation candy bar ideas is a great way to label the area.
You can write anything you want on the banner.
But try to go with a phrase that somewhat relates to graduation and also elbows to what treat lurks on the table above.
“A sweet ending to a new beginning” is perfect, and it’s yours to take!
7. Use Big Bowls as Containers
It may look like candy is practically overflowing from the candy bar, but this is just a party trick.
To carry it out, first you need to buy a pack of oversized bowls.
Buy dark shades and fill the bottom of each with some sort of filler: pebbles, post-it notes, whatever you have on hand.
Finally, pour the candy on top, giving the impression of infinite amounts of sweet treats.
8. Tropical Themed Bar
Maybe you’re celebrating the incoming summer vacation.
Or maybe the graduate’s next educational venture is somewhere in the lower latitudes…
Either way, a tropical themed candy bar is a great choice!
Collect tropical flavors of each kind of candy – the coconut, guava, and pineapple flavors.
Your guests will be in an island state of mind in no time.
9. Set Up a Self Service Candy Bar
Take the pressure off yourself to serve the guests all night long by setting up a self service candy bar.
It’s super simple to go from a normal candy bar to a self service candy bar.
Just procure a few pairs of tongs or serving spoons so that guests can peruse and pick at the candy themselves.
10. Use Black Buckets
Get creative and create a few on-theme puns and jokes using candy.
There are so many options for candy-related puns.
You can use these six or sift through the bottomless pit of the internet for more.
Grab a few smaller buckets to keep the candy in and stick the sign with the pun on top.
Read: 15 Incredible Graduation Cakes For Boys They Will Love
11. Hang a «Candy Bar» Banner
Plenty of stores and of course, Amazon, sell packs of DIY banners that allow you to construct your own phrase to hang up.
If the party has a few different stations for food, consider hanging up a labeled banner to stake the claim of the candy bar.
12. Decorate with Balloons for a Pop of Color
A candy bar brings a colorful, fun vibe to the party.
By blowing up a few colorful balloons to float about the room, you will bring the bright and cheerful aesthetic home.
13. Use Elegant Containers to Serve the Candy
How neat are the giant martini and cocktail glasses full of candy?
The variable heights of these glasses brings a whole other dimension to the bar.
Check out your local party store to see if they sell similar items, or scavenge the house for clear flower vases of all shapes and sizes!
14. Get a Small Bar Cart
A bar cart, minus the alcohol, plus the sweets!
Use a small bar cart to hold toppings for an ice cream bar or just a few different types of cakes and candies.
Read: 18 Simple and Easy Graduation Food Table Ideas
15. Set Up an Ice Cream Station
Bring the ice cream parlor to the graduation party this year.
For the ultimate ice cream station, you will need plenty of toppings, sprinkles, cones and napkins!
If you don’t have the capacity to store ice cream in the freezer, swap it out for a few flavors of pudding.
16. Academic Themed Sweets
Due to the wide variety of candies available on the market…
There is the maximum opportunity to bring fun puns to the party!
For this one, the internet is your bestie!
17. Include Different Types of Popcorn (Including Sweet Popcorn)
People like choice, and this applies to popcorn preference, too!
And yes, it can be a part of your graduation candy bar ideas.
Popcorn can be salty, buttery, cheesy, sweet, caramel, etc.
Provide a few different flavor options and some cute popcorn boxes for your guests to take with them while they waltz around the event.
18. Make it Color Coordinated
The candy bar doesn’t hold just candy.
It also is the home for a few decorations, flowers, party favors, etc.
Make sure that everything goes together well by coordinating and planning out the colors beforehand.
19. Number Shaped Serving Trays
What an important year it is!
Grab number shaped serving trays that take the form of the four numbers of the graduation year.
If you’re tight on money or space, opt in for just the last two numbers.
People will still get the reference!
Next, just fill the serving trays with the sweet treat of the graduate’s choice.
