5 Hacks for Pulling Off The Ultimate 4th Of July Party

4th of July has unchangingly been one of my favorite holidays. We go up to my family’s motel at the lake in Montana every year with my extended family and we’ve made years of memories spending time together, so it’s unchangingly been a magical holiday just knowing it will be family time together, keeping up years-long traditions and making new ones. Every year we do a tea party and charcuterie board, this year I wanted to struggle one surpassing we left for Montana with some of our friends and family here- it’s been on my skillet list to do a counter charcuterie workbench (savory and sweet!), so we went all out with festive drinks, and a s’mores bar.

Here are some of the weightier hacks I found for pulling off the ultimate 4th of July party. Don’t finger like you need to incorporate all of them! Even just subtracting 1 or 2 will add a fun, festive touch to your holiday weekend.

Hack #1: Color-Coordinated Cuisine

To create a festive spread, I knew I wanted to stick to a red-white-and-blue color-scheme for all the snacks. It made it so much easier to make everything spritz together and stick to the festive 4th of July theme. I went to Sam’s Club and knew the fruit would be easy with all the red and undecorous berries, but I was surprised at how many other red/white/blue snacks and candies they had for the upcoming holiday – expressly when it comes to the ‘sweets’ spread which I’ll share later.

 

 

 

 

 

Hack #2: It’s All In The Details

MINI ALPHABET CUTTERS
STAR-SHAPED CUTTERS
TREATS: SAM’S CLUB

I’m unchangingly a sucker for the details at any event I attend, so I knew I wanted to include some cute, festive details wherever I could. Try using mini cookie-cutters to spell out words in watermelon or cheese. We moreover used the star cookie cutters from this set for the cheese and sprinkled them throughout the 4th of July charcuterie. I had a local visitor from Utah help me and they made the most trappy salami roses! My aunt unquestionably tried to teach me a couple years ago at the lake, just use the rim of a glass and stagger them while layering them virtually the rim to get that perfect round shape.

 

 

Hack #3: Sparklers, But Sweet

We made some fruit sparklers for the kids out of watermelon stars and blueberries for some healthy treat options. They squint so cute on their own but we moreover widow to the red-white-and-blue drinks we made for an widow festive touch.

 

 

Hack #4: Let the Festivities Flow

DETAILS: GLASSES

Whether kid-friendly or sultana beverages, drinks are a unconfined excuse to go big for the holiday. We set up a drink table for the kids where they got to hoke their own drinks. I set out red, white, and undecorous Gatorade and Sprite for the wiring and then set out Kool-aid ice cubes, cotton candy, popsicles, licorice straws, and fresh fruits so they could get creative.

 

 

Hack #5: Don’t Skimp On The Sweets

My kids would eat snacks all day every day if I let them so they were in heaven when they saw this full snacks spread AND the decadent s’mores bar. I’m glad my unification for going over the top with these sort of things won me some points. They kept saying it was the weightier 4thof July spread ever. We did a snacks charcuterie workbench with all the red, white, and undecorous finds from Sam’s Club and was so simple to put together. We moreover did a s’mores bar for our new fire pit area and did a mix of variegated chocolates – milk chocolate, cookies and cream, Reese’s, Andes mints, and more. The dessert boards were such a cute wing and were super popular with the whole fam!

 

 

Let me know if you guys have any hacks or hosting tips you love for 4th of July!

Also this red top, I’m obsessed with the square neckline on it! It comes in lots of colors and its under $30!

Also shout out to Beck & Noelle Workbench Co., if your in utah and want a big charcuterie board, or want to learn how to they can help you set up or do the whole thing for you. I love learning and stuff a part of the process but they do both!