About Health: The Easy Way to Throw an Awesome Last-Minute Fourth of July Party

The Easy Way to Throw an Awesome Last-Minute Fourth of July Party

Creating a red, white, and blue mimosa bar is super simple—and we even have free printable signs you can download.

Build-your-own mimosa bars—in which you arrange an assortment of bubbly, juices, and fruits, then let guests create their own brunch cocktails—are blowing up on Pinterest. It's easy to see why: They're easy to set up, affordable, and just plain fun. The only thing that could make the mimosa bar concept even better? A festive theme—so we set out to create a red, white, and blue mimosa bar that's perfect for brunch this Fourth of July weekend (along with any patriotic occasion, for that matter).

Putting together something Instagram-worthy is almost too easy. You just create a pretty display out of the following items:

Sparkling wine or champagne
A red juice, a blue juice, and a clear or white juice. We went with cherry, blueberry, white cranberry, and coconut juice.
Similarly colored fruits. We used raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, apples, and white peaches to create our spread.
Fun glasses. "We like to say, 'Think outside of the flute,'" says Jennifer Wall, a Barefoot winemaker. "You can do fun colorful glasses, you can do mason jars, you can do tumblers.
Whatever feels fun and festive and on par with your celebration or party."
Cute decorative elements. These are optional but definitely make everything feel more celebratory.

How fun is this?

If you want to try to recreate our all-American mimosa bar for your own Independence Day brunch, check out the products we used:

1. Barefoot Bubbly Pinot Grigio, Prosecco, and Red Moscato, $11-$12, barefootwine.com. 2. Plastic carafe, $5, Marshalls (marshallsonline.com for store locations). 3. Mason jar with straw lid, $10 for set of six, T.J.Maxx (tjmaxx.com for store locations). 4. Tempo square bowl, $6 for set of four, worldmarket.com. 5. Flag serving board, $20, cb2.com. 6. Linen cocktail napkins, $30 for a set of six, food52.com. 7. Pom pom drink stirrers, $10, cwonder.com. 8. Americana paper straws, $3.49 for a 25-pack, worldmarket.com.