Raise a toast with our patriotic 4th of July drink, boasting enticing layers. Follow our guide for a memorable celebration!

5 glasses of red, white and blue layered drinks in tall thin glasses, and surrounded by red, white and blue decor including one red, one white and one blue star standing behind the drinks, and small red white and blue stars surrounding the drinks, along with red and white linen and blue and white linen. Each drink has a blue and white straw and a red and white straw in it

Perfect for Memorial Day, the 4th of July, Labor Day, or any hot summer day! You can use this technique for any layered drink, as the secret is in the sugar content of each ingredient.

The variations are endless! They are made extra fun with the addition of popping candy on the rims of the glasses!

Red white and blue layered drink from top to bottom in square glass with two straws with spiral design. Drink ingredients pictured include red powerade, white gatorade and blue gatorade. Writing on the image is, "Sugar content is the key to layering. Arrange the liquids based on their respective sugar densities, with the highest sugar content at the bottom layer."

The layers are made by stacking the liquids from most sugar dense to least sugar dense!

We had so much fun trying all these combinations and purchased everything at Walmart and Target. Let your kids pick out their favorite red layer, white layer, and blue layer. You could even set up a mocktail table where kids use their basic math skills to create their specialty drinks.

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Table Of Contents

1 Let’s make your new favorite Patriotic drink!

1.1 Supplies for your 4th of July layered drink:

1.2 Ingredients for your Patriotic mocktail:

1.3 Optional Garnish:

1.4 Directions for making your layered drink:

1.5 Additional ideas for red, white, and blue beverages:

1.6 Our combination ideas for 4th of July layered drinks:

1.7 Tips & Tricks:

2 Easy 4th of July Layered Drink

2.1 Materials

2.2 Tools

2.3 Instructions

2.4 Notes

Let’s make your new favorite Patriotic drink!

Supplies for your 4th of July layered drink:

Tall glass (collins glass is a good choice because it has straight sides and you can easily see the layers)
Large tablespoon
Small bowls
Paper straws

Three tall thin glasses with a red, white and blue layered drink; two with red at the bottom and one with blue at the bottom. All with two straws and each with pop rock like candy around the entire rim of glass

Ingredients for your Patriotic mocktail:

Lemon wedge or fresh lemon juice
Popping candy – remember Pop Rocks? This is the new and improved version from Walmart. Imagine the fun as the kids take a drink and get an explosion in their mouths!
Ice cubes (lots and lots of fresh ice)
Red Layer beverage
White Layer beverage
Blue Layer beverage

These are the beverages that we tried. I’ve provided feedback on what each tasted like (to me) so that you can start searching for the perfect ingredients for your taste buds. “Cool frost” didn’t help me much in the store as I was looking for flavors that would go together (I thought it tasted like fruit punch).

6 full blue drinks containers including 2 powerades, 1 hawaiian punch, 2 gatorades and one icee;, 9 white or clear drink containers including 7Up, Ginger Ale, gatorade, powerade and other drink mixes; , and 7 red drink containers including gatorade, body armor, cranraspberry, strawberry Fanta, and other drink mixes. With each color lined up on its own separate shelf of drinks.

RED Beverages	Sugar Content	Tasted Like To Me
Powerade Zero Fruit Punch	0g	Fruit Punch
Rose’s Grenadine Syrup	20g	Grenadine
Body Armor Fruit Punch	21g	Fruit Punch
Ocean Spray Cran Raspberry	26g	Cranberry Raspberry
Body Armor Watermelon Strawberry	28g	Watermelon
Mr & Mrs T Strawberry Daiquiri-Margarita Mix (non-alcoholic)	43g	Strawberry
Fanta Strawberry	45g	Strawberry

WHITE Beverages	Sugar Content	Tasted Like To Me
Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut	18g	Coconut
Rose’s Simple Syrup	19g	Sugar Water
Gatorate Frost Cool	21g	Fruit Punch
Powerade White Cherry	21g	Cherry
Favorite Day Piña Colada Mix (non-alcoholic)	29g	Coconut
Schweppes Ginger Ale	33g	Ginger ale
Texas Roadhouse Margarita Mixer (non-alcoholic)	37g	Bottled ReaLemon
7Up	39g	Lemon Lime
Milos Lemonade	65g	Lemonade

BLUE Beverages	Sugar Content	Tasted Like To Me
Powerade Zero Mixed Berry	0g	Cotton Candy
Hawaiian Punch Polar Blast	13g	Fruit Punch
Powerade Mountain Berry Blast	21g	Fruit Punch
Gatorade Fierce	22g	Grape
Icee Slush Blue Raspberry	23g	Raspberry
Gatorade Cool Blue	34g	Raspberry

Optional Garnish:

Fresh Blueberries
Fresh mint leaves
Fresh raspberries
Fresh Strawberries
Lime wheel

3 glasses of red white and blue layered drink with 2 straws each, rimmed with pop rock like candy, and decorated with red white and blue star decor, and red, white and blue napkins

Directions for making your layered drink:

1. Rub a lemon wedge on the edge of the glass.

Rubbing a lemon slice on the entire upper rim of a tall, square drinking glass. Also a small white bowl with blue powdery candy, a small white bowl with red powdery like candy, and a small white bowl with sliced lemon

2. While it is still wet, dip the glass into a small bowl filled with popping candy (aka Pop Rocks).

Dipping a tall square glass, the upper rim of which has been covered with lemon juice, into a small white bowl of red pop rock like candy. Also, a small, whtie bowl of blue pop rock candy and a small, white bowl of sliced lemon

Your glass will look like this:

Two small white bowls of pop rock like candy, one with red candy and one with blue candy, and a small white bowl of sliced lemons, and a square glass, the upper rim of which was dipped in lemon juice and then into the red candy

3. Pour in your first ingredients, filling 1/4 of your glass.

4. Fill the glass with ice. Look at the first layer to ensure it does not go more than 1/3 of the way up the glass. The ice will make the first layer rise to 1/3 of the glass. If there is too much of the first liquid in the ice-filled glass, sip some of it out with a straw.

5. Slowly pour your second layer over the back of a spoon so that the liquid does not forcefully mix with your first layer.

In a tall round glass, adding 7 Up as the middle layer on top of an already poured red layer of liquid, and before the last blue layer

6. Repeat for your third layer.

Adding the top blue Hawaiian Punch layer to a tall, round drinking glass that already has red and white layers of liquid in it.

7. Garnish with fresh berries if desired.

Layered red white and blue drink in tall thin glass with two straws and pop rock candy on rim of glass

Additional ideas for red, white, and blue beverages:

RED: Cranberry Juice, Red Koolaid, Simply Fruit Punch,
WHITE: Club Soda, ginger beer (ginger beer does not contain alcohol), grapefruit juice, pineapple juice, SoBe pina colada, soda water, tonic water, light agave nectar.
BLUE: Butterfly Pea blue tea (cooled)

Our combination ideas for 4th of July layered drinks:

Red, white and blue layered drink in tall glass with two straws and pop rock like candy around entire upper rim of glass; consisting of daquiri margarita mix, pina colada mix and blue raspberry icee.

Layered red, white, and blue drink in an hour shaped glass with powerade, cran-raspberry, and Hawaiian punch bottles in the background.

Red white and blue drink in round tall glass with blue Hawaiian punch, 7Up, and Strawberry Fanta. Glass has 2 straws, one with blue and white spirals and the other with red and white spirals

Drink in a tall thin glass with 3 different layers of color: red, white and blue; and including containers of red daquiri margarita mix, clear ginger ale, and blue powerade

Tips & Tricks:

Adding your first layer before the ice cubes is ideal.
If you use straws, put them in after your first liquid so the insertion does not disturb the layers.
Pouring your second and third liquid slowly over the back of a spoon will allow the liquid to sit on top of the previous one without the force of gravity, making it go into the one below it.

5 glasses full of red, white and blue layered drinks, with two straws in each glass, each glass rimmed with pop rock like candy; and, red, white and blue star decor surrounding the glasses.

Perfect for your Fourth of July cookout, this refreshing drink will be a kid’s favorite. The best part will be letting them make different drinks and watching as they make their own drink recipe. Just have plenty of crushed ice on hand!

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Any way you make it, our layered 4th of July layered drink is a refreshing way to cool down a hot day. Let us know in the comments what combinations were popular at your July celebration.

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Easy 4th of July Layered Drink

Yield: 1

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Active Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Raise a toast with our patriotic 4th of July drink, boasting enticing layers. Follow our guide for a memorable celebration!

Materials

Lemon wedge or fresh lemon juice
Popping candy - remember Pop Rocks? This is the new and improved version from Walmart. Imagine the fun as the kids take a drink and get an explosion in their mouth!
Ice cubes (lots and lots of fresh ice)
Red Layer beverage
White Layer beverage
Blue Layer beverage

Tools

Tall glass (collins glass is a good choice because it has straight sides and you can easily see the layers)
Large tablespoon
Small bowls
Paper straws

Instructions

Rub a lemon wedge on the edge of the glass.

While it is still wet, dip the glass into a small bowl filled with popping candy (aka Pop Rocks).

Pour in your first ingredients, filling 1/4 of your glass.

Fill the glass with ice. Look at the first layer to ensure it does not go more than 1/3 of the way up the glass. The ice will make the first layer rise to 1/3 of the glass. If there is too much of the first liquid in the ice-filled glass, sip some of it out with a straw.

Slowly pour your second layer over the back of a spoon so that the liquid does not forcefully mix with your first layer.

Repeat for your third layer.

Garnish with fresh berries if desired.

Notes

Additional ideas for red, white, and blue beverages:

RED: Cranberry Juice
WHITE: Club Soda, ginger beer (ginger beer does not contain alcohol), grapefruit juice, pineapple juice, SoBe pina colada, soda water, tonic water, light agave nectar.
BLUE: Butterfly Pea blue tea (cooled)

Tips & Tricks:

Adding your first layer before the ice cubes is ideal.
If you use straws, put them in after your first liquid so the insertion does not disturb the layers.
Pouring your second and third liquid slowly over the back of a spoon will allow the liquid to sit on top of the previous one without the force of gravity, making it go into the one below it.

Easy 4th of July Layered Drink

Let’s make your new favorite Patriotic drink!