Best Christmas Bar Cart Ideas for a Small Drink Trolley

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! In this post, we will show you how to incorporate festive Christmas bar cart ideas with your small drinks trolley. Your little cart will keep on giving holiday joy all season long!

Christmas bar cart in front of window wall

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I am determined to not buy any seasonal decor this year. In the past couple years, I went overboard with overbuying. So now I’m on a seasonal decor sabbatical. For my Christmas bar cart, I am using a few things that were already purchased in past years.

The big thing is to not go overboard with the decorations – particularly if you have a small cart like mine. I am using my small round bar cart that I bought last year at Tuesday Morning. By the way, if you are on the lookout for a small gold bar cart, I am in love with this small vintage round gold bar cart at Amazon! If it weren’t for the fact of me already having mine, this one would be my go to! Target also carries some cute little gold bar trolleys.

Steps for Styling a Christmas Bar Cart with Your Small Drinks Trolley

Fill Your Liquor Bottles in First

Those bottles of rum and vodka are going to take first priority in the real estate space because…a bar cart with no liquor is a sad excuse for a bar cart, correct? So fill in the liquor bottles first. If you find you are getting too cramped on space, you might remove duplicate bottles or just stick with your top favorites. Heavy bottles definitely should be at the bottom – unless it is a bottle you reach for regularly. If so, you might try to find a snug spot for it at the back of the top tray.

Add Glasses

Next, add your glasses to the bottom tray. At our house with a wild little running dog, I find it find it best to put fragile glasses on the bottom tier along with the heavy bottles. Don’t feel you need to shove all your glasses onto the small round bar trolley. Only put out maybe four or so – maybe two different styles if you think each style of glass will get proper use. You can always keep your extra glasses in a cabinet.

Add Plates, Napkins, and Straws

Add small holiday or color themed melamine plates or napkins for quick appetizers or for placing cocktail fruits on while making a drink. Places like Target, Hobby Lobby, Dollar Tree, Walmart, and Home Goods carry cute seasonal melamine plates, napkins, Christmas drink sizzle sticks, and straws. The prices vary, but you can often find a good sale at Hobby Lobby on the seasonal items.

Add Some Christmas Embellishments for a Christmas Bar Cart

Now, it’s time for the fun! Adding a few festive touches will make your Christmas bar cart party ready! Just be sure to not overdo it as you don’t want the bar cart to look so overstuffed that people are scared to touch it for fear things fall over. I usually add one to three non-essential yet festive items to mine – one or two on the top tier and one larger decorative piece at the bottom.

In this case, I decided to forego typical “pieces of decor” and let the actual consumables be the decor.

On the top shelf, we have the basket of variety pack of cocktail mixers along with a glass jar of swizzle sticks. Notice my mixers were a holiday theme. I found these at Tuesday Morning (which is going out of business in my area). Places like TJ Maxx and HomeGoods also carry this type of holiday mixer. They are really the same as the normal mixers but have cute holiday names given to them during the Christmas season.

Christmas bar cart top shelf with holidays napkins, Christmas swizzle sticks, and more

basket of cocktail mixers with picks of berries

On the bottom shelf, we have a small basket of cute gourmet chocolate shaped like Christmas ornaments. Next to the basket is a set of six miniature wine glasses with wine glass jingle bell charms.

Christmas bar cart ideas including gourmet Christmas chocolates in a basket

Add a Fun Christmas Sign

You can find a whole collection of fun Christmas sayings for signs here on our site linked at the end of this post. We love a good seasonal pun! If you don’t have a large sign to hang over the bar cart, you may can squeeze a smaller letter board or sign on the bar cart or hang a festive style artwork above the cart.