5 Fun Limeade Recipes [Summer Drinks]

After seeing Amy's fun post on making your own limeade, I realized that we haven't had any limeade yet this summer, homemade or otherwise!  This whole moving thing is killing the summer buzz, so tomorrow we will be squeezing some fresh limes and enjoying some DIY limeade.  You can check out Amy's limeade recipe over at The Idea Room.

Four Citrus Lemonade

Four Citrus Lemonade from Delia Creates

Snowman Hot Chocolate

Hot chocolate is one of our must have treats once the weather gets cold.  From the first cup we sip while driving around to look at Christmas lights, to the large batch we make to keep everyone warm while setting off fireworks on New Year's Eve, we consume a lot of hot cocoa during the winter.

You can serve our favorite hot chocolate dressed up like frosty.  All you need is whipped cream, some chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth, an orange spice drop nose, and our very favorite, very simple  homemade hot chocolate recipe.

Starbucks Passion Tea Lemonade Recipe [Copy Cat]

Copy Cat Starbucks Passion Tea Lemonade from The Pin Junkie

Party Beverage Station [Summer]

DIY Party Beverage Station from Lil' Luna

Watermelon Ice Cube Stars [4th of July]

Watermelon Star Ice Cubes from Catch My Party Blog

DIY Drink Umbrellas[Party Ideas]

DIY Drink Umbrellas from Oh Happy Day

DIY Watermelon Keg

Watermelon Drink Dispenser from Watermelon.org

Christmas Wassail Recipe

Christmas Wassail Recipe from Landee See Landee Do

Frankenstein Punch [Lime Sherbert Punch Recipe]

Frankenstein Punch

Frozen Fruit Ice Cubes

Frozen Fruit Ice Cubes by Kelly Robson

Soda Surprise

Soda Surprise Activity for Kids from Just Another Day In Paradise

Pineapple Limeade Cooloer

Pineapple Limeade Cooler by GoodLife Eats

Party Ice

Fruity Ice Cubes from Martha Stewart

Thanksgiving Cup Markers

If you are having a big group over for Thanksgiving and your event is a little classier than busting out a sharpie to write names on cups, you might like this idea that I posted about a couple of years ago:

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These were for a wedding, so the monograms are all the same, but you could use Fall colors and write each persons name or initials on their little stirrer.  Of course you will have to be careful that nobody pokes their eye out!  My grandmother was always worried about that.

I also like this idea and I have quite a few faux Fall leaves lying around the house:

Do you have a special way you keep track of drinks?

Pumpkin Coolers

I have posted about this pumpkin drink cooker before:

But I saw a new spin on it over at Design Dump:

I especially like the spider eyes!  You could use vinyl or pain to put a regular jack-o-lantern face on the pumpkin too if you wanted,

I also like this one and think it would be fun to fill with bottled rootbeer:

For the Fall Festival I will have a few too many drinks to store in pumpkins, but I am using one of these:

With one of these vinyl faces on it from Totally Rad Crafts:

Party Ice

If you can't think of a fun drink to pep up your party, you can always try pepping up the ice!

Whatever made some really fun rainbow ice, which is perfect for all of the rainbow parties I have seen lately:
 

Bits of Taste added color and taste to their drink with fruit ice:

Then of course there is always the option of flowers:

And to make al of these even prettier, you can read about how to make your ice crystal clear HERE.