HEY graduates! A candy table for graduation? I already like the sound of that. If you have a big sweet tooth, what better way to celebrate than with a graduation candy table! Everyone will remember your graduation party with any of these awesome candy table ideas and chances are you will have a year’s supply of candy.
You’ll obsess over these grad candy tables!
Can you just skip to dessert? At your graduation party, you absolutely can. It wasn’t even the food that made my graduation party a hit years ago… it was the chocolate fondue fountain. Yeah, you heard.
Candy and sweets make the party more exciting, so why not make a graduation candy table of it? Bring everyone together for a sweet time (get it?) and have a party they will cherish with the best candy table. You’re going to be picking at food and eating finger food anyways, so switch it up and do something different.
There are numerous ways to make a candy table for graduation look tasty and fit right with the graduation theme! Here are our favorites from table display ideas, to DIY signs, and tips on making this an inexpensive project for your amazing grad party.
5 FUN Candy Table Printables
Most of these are printables you can purchase for a few dollars and print off from a computer. You can also use these as inspo to create your own!
The Candy Buffet Signs
The candy buffet signs are the best and so common at grad parties. These labels are perfect for a candy buffet and make for a fun time. There’s a pun for everything. You can’t not smile when you’re eating candy with these cool signs! Some of the best gradation candy table ideas are simple but add humor to the party and that’s what these signs are for!
Choose Your Theme Color Labels
What are your theme colors? A great way to color coordinate with a candy table is going by theme colors! The labels and candy are displayed so well when you decorate like this for graduation. Switch up the sign colors with the candy colors but still make it so that it’s all the same color scheme and matches!
Custom Candy Bar Wrappers
What’s cooler than personalized candy wrappers for your candy table? This is a fun, easy and brilliant candy idea. The grad party will feel even more special with these customized wrappers given out only at your party! It’s a whole graduation vibe when you’re eating sweets that say graduation themselves!
Chalk Board Candy Bar Signs
Chalk board candy bar signs make for the cutest graduation candy table ideas! If you have good handwriting this is a super easy way to make signs for the candy table and that everyone will easily notice! You can’t go wrong with some chalk board fun. This will also create more of a personalized look to your grad party.
Graduation Candy Gram Poster
A graduation candy gram poster, one way to see all the candy offered at the party on a cool poster! This is great for having up at a grad party and entertaining for anyone at the candy table. You can do this by getting a large poster printed at a local print shop and then just add full-size candy bars. Amazing!
Candy table display ideas
Here are tons awesome graduation candy table ideas to INSPIRE YOU that are sure to make an impression at your party! There are ways to keep the candy table simple yet perfect for graduation.
Whether you add a cool sign, cute toppers, and funny sayings or want to color coordinate your candy and make a theme of it, you will have the best candy buffet in no time!
Graduation Rocks
Could these labels and candy go any better together? These simple yet great labels are just what you need on your grad party candy table. Rock candy and cookies are very common for grad parties, so if you’re looking for the best label to go with them, check these out!
A Sweet Ending to a New Beginning
Have the ultimate candy sign for your candy table. “A sweet ending to a new beginning…” This is perfect for anything you put on the table since it’s all sweets. If you want a sign that will catch people attention, big candy signs are the best graduation candy table ideas.
One Smart Cookie
This sign technically just for cookies, but it’s too cute not to include with candy! You can have a tray of cookies with one of these signs on the side or just a whole buffet of cookies works too. One of the most popular grad signs and one the cutest graduation candy table ideas!
Grad cap sign
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If you want to do something simple but clever this adorable cap and grad year sign is the best! This is perfect with smaller containers and if you’re trying to give an aesthetic look to the table. Half the candy can read the year you graduate and half of them can be caps. This makes for an awesome centerpiece too and something you can easily move around!
Graduation themed candy signs
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I love this idea for a graduation candy table! Match up sayings with candies and makes funny puns out of them for a fun candy table display. It’s simple, cute, and quick! Print out signs to coordinate with the candy you want to have at the party and stick them in a jar! The signs definitely add a fun element to the candy jars and make it easy to want more!
Color them
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Color coordinate the graduation candy table with one color! Either that or your school colors. This is fun because you can find all the candy that’s the same color but adds to the decor of the grad party.
Graduation Hershey kiss stickers
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How cute! Mini stickers to put on the bottom of Hershey’s kisses? It’s perfect for a graduation candy table. The stickers are all a little different and can easily be applied to other kinds of candy too. This is a clever and easy idea while sticking to the grad theme!
Graduation candy class rings
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The kind of class ring suited for everyone! This is super cute for a graduation candy table, easy to put together, and adds perfectly to the graduation theme! Don’t forget the cute sign to label your class rings!
Sweet success sign
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Buckets of candy, how sweet! This sign is perfect with the buckets. The sign helps draw attention to the graduation candy table, and looks so cute! It really is a sweet success. Buckets of candy s a great look with his and help to make the table look even more full.
Themed grad candy table
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Nothing says graduation more than you celebrating with your favorite sports team or school colors. This is a perfect assortment for a graduation candy table and gives guests a lot to choose from! You can consider this a place to put additional decor while creating a sweet treat spot!
Candy bar sign
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What’s a graduation candy table without a good candy bar sign?! This completes the look and makes the candy table even more noticeable and enticing! Whether you make your own or buy one, this is a super cute candy table for graduation idea! I mean after guests read this sign, how can they not want candy?
Candy buffet
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If you’re going to create a candy table might as well go all out right? Buffet style?? Here is one of the best graduation candy tables ideas for the ultimate buffet. If you’re hosting a big graduation party this might be the look for you! It’s as simple as taking baskets, buckets, and any large containers for all the candy that you need.
Candy filled glasses
Want an easy way to have just the right amount of candy on the table and save space? Fill large cocktail and margarita glasses with candy! SO clever and cute! It already looks like a party with the glasses out, let alone all the candy options! If I were to host a graduation party again, I would absolutely take out the cocktail glasses and fill them to the rim with candy.
More Candy Bar Table Ideas
We have even more ideas that aren’t graduation specific! These are just super cute candy bar table ideas to consider whether you want them to match a color theme or whatever your heart desires. Feel free to add grad signs!
Candy salad
Based on a viral TikTok video, a candy salad counts as a vegetable…am I right?
Sold colors
Whether you’re going for a pink party or just want to match your school colors, having a candy bar table in all one color is a way to stand out!
Candy charcuterie board
While this gigantic candy charcuterie table was originally designed for a birthday celebration, there’s no reason you can’t make this for your grad party too! Such a cool idea.
Chocolate lovers edition
Why stick to a variety of candy when you can make your entire candy table out of chocolate? Perfect for the chocolate lover!
Stack em’ up
A cute and cheap way to make a candy bar is to stack individual servings into Dollar Store plastic cups. Buying large bags of candy in bulk helps to keep down the costs!
What’s your grad year?
A super clever idea is to buy or design your candy collection in the year of your graduation!
Candy cart
Make your own candy cart and organize the treats in a variety of glass, plastic, and ceramic containers and bowls.
More Graduation Party Ideas
- High graduation party ideas
- Outdoor graduation party ideas
- Graduation party food ideas
- College graduation party ideas
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Love the ideas.
Love it ave me so many ideas. How big were the pails you used?