Easy DIY Hot Cocoa Bar

This DIY Hot Cocoa Bar is a fun way to celebrate the holidays with the kids! Everyone will love this creative, do-it-yourself spread!

Just weeks before Christmas I hosted a crafty Christmas open house in our home. It had two purposes; one, get together with girlfriends and have a playdate with the kids and two, showcase all of the crafty things that we had be creating for our local craft fair.

The craft part was a sneak preview of what I would be selling at the Christmas craft fair. It was a great way to test out my products on friends first!

I was thrilled and surprised at how well received the craft fair goodies were. We had made these DIY Snowman Kits, Melted Snowman Ornaments and Wooden Block Snowmen to name a few.

After I cleaned the house and laid out my craft fair goods on our kitchen island, I thought that I should do something fun for the littles on our kitchen table.  I had covered our ottoman in the living room with craft paper and had containers of beads, bells and pipe cleaners for the kids to make a craft with.

So very last minute (I mean, truly the night before) I threw together this Hot Cocoa Bar. I printed off some food labels like the ones found in my Free Printable Christmas Party Pack to start.

A few plastic cups from some other event were found in one of my party bins.  So I used what red pom poms and beads I could find and hot glue gunned noses to each one.  

Then I used brown and white striped pipe cleaners for antlers (because that’s all that I could find in the house).  And finally I drew on eyes with a sharpie because not a single googlie eye was to be found last minute. 

So cute though right?!?

Not having a chance to run to the store I used what toppings I could find.  Caramels, green sprinkles, mini candy canes and white chocolate chips.

Hot cocoa bar supples:

• Hot chocolate
• Try this keto hot chocolate recipe
• Candy canes
• Mini marshmallows
• Candy canes
• Peppermint extract
• Whipping cream

I always seem to have candy canes and marshmallows in the house!

 I pulled a frame down from a wall somewhere and added this printable {love}.

Christmas cookies pair beautifully with this hot cocoa bar! I love having a selection of cookies saved in my freezer for occasions just like these.

Most of the cookies that I served were from our annual Christmas Baking Exchange. Be sure to check out the post for tons of tips and trick for how I host this event!

 I added some festive straws (purchased just a week before from this lovely Canadian company)…

 And finished with more candy canes and fabulous printables!

For something whipped together as an afterthought, I think that this Hot Cocoa Bar turned out pretty cute!

To serve the cocoa, I placed hot chocolate mix into a large glass pitcher, filled only half way with hot water, stirred well then filled the remainder of the pitcher with milk.  This made the cocoa easy to pour and more like warm chocolate milk so that there was no risk of little ones possibly burning themselves with HOT water. 

This would be a fun winter activity for the kids.  After sledding or for a preschool play date.  I have brought out the supplies a few more times just for the fun of it and the kiddos love it.

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Our essentials for crafts:

• We love using these Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints to add bright color to all of our projects.
• These paint brushes are ideal for most craft surfaces and a great price!
• This art supplies kit is our favorite because it has everything we needed to get started.
• This rolling storage cart helps to keep our craft supplies organized.

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