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Home » Desserts » Easy DIY Popcorn Bar

Easy DIY Popcorn Bar

September 9, 2016 *This post may include amazon links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Want to set up your very own popcorn bar at your next party? I set one up at my brother and sister in law’s bridal shower and everyone loved it. It also served as the “Thank You” favors for the party!

How to Set up a popcorn bar!!

When I was trying to think of a favor for the bridal shower, I just couldn’t think of anything good. Well, that’s not true, I could think a ton but I couldn’t think of any that we could afford. haha

You see, we invited over 145 people to this bridal shower and even if we had found thank you favors for $1 it would have cost us well over $100 for favors for the shower. While I love Meghan a ton, I just didn’t have an extra $100 for thank you favors for the shower. haha

Make your own popcorn bar favor table for a bridal shower or a birthday party!

So I had already planned on having a popcorn bar at the shower as a surprise for Meghan but after thinking of what to make for favors, I thought that the popcorn bar would totally work for that too!

Meghan wanted a popcorn bar at their wedding but for one reason or another she decided that they would forgo the popcorn bar. So I made it happen for the bridal shower!

This is how I set ours up….

This is the perfect idea for favors for a bridal shower!!

I picked three flavors for our popcorn bar:

  • White Cheddar Popcorn
  • Kettle Corn
  • Butter Popcorn

The Butter Popcorn and Kettle Corn were just Orville Redenbacher boxes of popcorn that I popped in the microwave the morning of the shower.

For the white cheddar popcorn, I popped regular kernels of popcorn in my Whirley-Pop Stovetop Popcorn Popper and then sprinkled the popped kernels with white cheddar popcorn seasoning.

Such a great idea! We did this for my brother's wedding shower and it was a hit!!

Then I sealed up the popcorn in plastic bags until it was party time!

For the popcorn baskets, I used three of these large large Bushel Baskets. However, those are huge baskets and I knew I didn’t want to pop THAT MUCH popcorn for the shower.

So Meghan’s dad had a great idea. He had some hoop cheese crates at the shop, so we turned those upside down, stuck them into the bushel baskets so that we didn’t have to fill them all the way up.

We filled up 3 large plastic bags with the popcorn and then sat the bags down into the bushel baskets at the party.  After that I popped a few little silver scoops into the popcorn for easy serving!

Mini Chocolate Chip with the popcorn for a DIY popcorn bar! How neat!

I also wanted a little something extra with the popcorn bar, so I decided to put out some toppings!

Now everyone is going to be making their own personal popcorn bags so we might as well give them some toppings to go with that popcorn!

So glad that we did this popcorn bar for the favors for the wedding shower. Everyone loved it and it was fun for everyone to be able to create their own popcorn favor bags!

My mom use to eat M&Ms and popcorn when I was little so when I was thinking of toppings for the popcorn bar all I could think about was chocolate. haha.

I got a few little small rectangle bushel baskets and filled them with Reese Pieces, Mini Chocolate Chips and Mini M&Ms.

How knew that creating your own popcorn bar for a party was this easy! I thought ti would have been more work but I was wrong!

So since these are favors and people are going to want to take their treats home, they’ll need some bags.

In a little chicken wire basket, I laid out some white and brown paper bags with some twine for everyone to take their popcorn home.

We need to have a popcorn bar like this at every party! How cool is that!

I finished off the popcorn bar with a little sign that said “Thank You”, well and a little message letting everyone know to make their own little popcorn baggie.

 

Towards the end of the wedding shower everyone started to gather over by the popcorn bar and before I knew it they were filling their bags with popcorn and toppings!

Our guest loved making their own popcorn favor bags at the wedding shower! Such an easy idea too!

Such a fun little favor table!

How would you set up your popcorn bar? Any different topping ideas?

Easy DIY Popcorn Bar

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  1. Ashley Kidd says

    September 13, 2017 at 7:12 pm

    How soon did you pop the popcorn? How soon do you think you could pop the popcorn before hand and keep in the plastic bag and it still be fresh.

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    • Angie says

      September 13, 2017 at 9:25 pm

      I popped the popcorn the night before the event. You don’t want to do it too early though because you don’t want it to get stale.

      Reply
  2. Michelle says

    September 24, 2017 at 2:19 pm

    I am planning to do this for a baby shower. Can you tell me approximately how much popcorn you estimated per person?

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    • Angie says

      September 26, 2017 at 4:05 am

      I think everyone took about a cup or so of popcorn home.

      Reply
  3. Kim says

    December 22, 2017 at 8:36 am

    Where did you find the large plastic bags for the bushel baskets?

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    • Angie says

      December 22, 2017 at 8:57 am

      I got them from a local grocery store (they used them to line produce stands and I just asked for 3. However you could just giant Brining bags like for turkeys and such. (Or some companies call them giant oven bags. I just did a quick search on google and it looks like Walmart, Target, Bed Bath & Beyond and World Market sell them.

      Reply
  4. Megan says

    August 8, 2018 at 11:21 am

    How much of each popcorn did you pop? And how many people ended up coming to the shower?

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    • Angie says

      August 8, 2018 at 12:30 pm

      This shower was 2 years ago haha I don’t remember how many people came or how many bags we popped 🙂 Sorry but I do remember that the average party to-go bag was made with about 1 cup of popcorn and regular bags of popcorn have around 10 cups of popcorn in them once they are popped. 🙂

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  5. Katrina says

    February 19, 2020 at 6:30 pm

    What did you line the small rectangle bushel baskets with and where can I buy it? Please send links if you can.

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    • Angie says

      April 13, 2020 at 11:02 pm

      Hey! They’re just lined with white paper bags (like brown paper bags but the white ones) and I just rolled them down to fit into the baskets 🙂

      Reply
  6. Tina jones says

    June 23, 2022 at 3:48 pm

    What did you use for liners in the topping baskets?

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    • Angie says

      June 27, 2022 at 5:49 pm

      those are just white paper bags that I folded down over the baskets

      Reply

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