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    Home » Mom Life » Entertaining » Ice Cream Float Bar

    Published: Jan 26, 2015 · Updated: Jan 30, 2023 by Sharon Garofalow | This post may contain affiliate links. See the privacy policy linked in my footer.

    Ice Cream Float Bar

    Items to make ice cream floats for a party bar with text overlay.

    Set up a simple Ice Cream Float Bar at your next party! It's a quick and easy way for guests to make their own treats.

    Set up an ice cream float bar for your next party.

    *Tillamook sent me coupons to purchase the ice cream for my son's party. How cool is that?!

    For the last few years we have kept our kid's parties small. Gone are the days of my over the top kid's parties. But I still like to make them special and memorable. That often means trying to do things a little bit differently.

    Most parties serve ice cream and soda. So this time I decided to set out an ice cream float bar. It was a total hit.

    Set up an ice cream float bar for your next party.

    I'm mess averse so I didn't want to set this out for the kid's to do themselves. The kids range in ages from way too little to scoop their own ice cream to old enough to know that if they scoop their ice cream themselves they can get crazy. I brought out all the ingredients in the kitchen and recruited my sister-in-law to help me make them for the kids. I went to Bev Mo to buy all kinds of flavored sodas and picked up one 2 liter bottle of root beer. Because root beer floats. I picked up some standard flavors for the Tillamook ice cream including vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. And picked up one odd ball flavor - mint chocolate chip, in case anyone wanted to get crazy. We brought in the kids two at a time and they got to pick their flavors. There was lots of mixing.  Let me tell you, that blue cream soda was a hit. I had one taker for the banana soda and everyone skipped the pineapple.

    Set up an Ice Cream Float bar for your next kid's party.

    I had forgotten to purchase the straws with spoons on the ends but the kids still really loved them. We had monster faces to add-on their straws and they were all set. They loved comparing the colors of their floats.

    Set up an ice cream float bar for your next party.

    You can easily set up a float bar for an adult party too. Along with the flavored sodas you can also set out some Irish Cream, or other flavored liqueur.

    Set up an ice cream float bar for your next party.

    Don't be dumb. You don't need me to give you the steps to make a soda float.

    Set up an ice cream float bar for your next party.

    This chocolate ice cream + strawberry soda number was delicious.

    Set up an ice cream float bar for your next party.

    Thanks to all the artificial colors the soda gets super foamy and bright. Yeah chemicals!

    Ice Cream Float

    I bet you want to go make yourself a float now, don't you.

    Thank you, Tillamook, for providing me the ice cream for my son's birthday party. And thank YOU for supporting the companies that give me free ice cream and allow me to share cool things with you.

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    About Sharon Garofalow

    Sharon lives in Southern California with her adorable family. She loves to share ideas to make mom life easier and encourage busy gals to make time for themselves too! Sharon's "me" time often includes watching Hallmark Channel movies, sipping sauvignon blanc, trying not to eat Salt and Pepper potato chips, and planning girlfriend getaways.

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    1. Nichole says

      January 27, 2015 at 8:12 pm

      How fun! We don't have kids yet, but I'd totally do this for an adult party too!

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      • Sharon Garofalow says

        January 29, 2015 at 12:35 pm

        The adults LOVED it!!

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