Creating the ideal Merry Christmas social media post can be surprisingly tricky. It seems simple enough, but when you actually get started…

Free images are often tacky, while the good ones come with watermarks. Platform image sizes never seem to match, and what even is aspect ratio anyway? But don’t worry, because this article is here to make your life much easier! It’s packed with ready-made social media posts for all your holiday marketing needs.

What You’ll Find Here

If this isn’t the ultimate shortcut for holiday social media, then we’re not sure what is.

• Christmas social media posts/images
• New Year’s social media posts/images
• Hanukkah social media posts/images
• Kwanzaa social media posts/images
• Christmas and holiday Facebook cover images

How to Use These Holiday Social Media Posts & Templates

Here’s the plan:

For the Images

Each image is sized for Facebook posts, Facebook covers, and Instagram posts. Just click the link below any image thumbnail to save and post it as is…OR customize it with these Canva template links!

• Canva templates for the Facebook post sizes
• Canva templates for the Instagram post sizes
• Canva templates for Facebook cover sizes

(New to Canva? Learn the basics with this guide on how to use Canva!)

For the Captions

We’ve provided some general quotes, messages, and phrases you can use for your posts, but here are even more caption ideas:

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• 64 Prompts, Ideas, & Phrases for Cliche-Free Holiday Copy
• 86 Christmas Social Media Posts & Slogans for Your Merriest Marketing Yet Looking for longer, more personalized messages? Check out these creative holiday customer appreciation email ideas. And while we’re on the topic of authentic copywriting, don’t miss this free guide: The 120 Best Words & Phrases for Marketing with Emotion

Merry Christmas Social Media Posts & Images for Facebook & Instagram

Many traditions and cultures are celebrated during this time of year, but Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the New Year are among the most widespread. While each features light, joy, love, and family, they also possess unique themes and atmospheres. When incorporating Christmas social media posts and images into your December marketing, consider:

• Cheer, joy, laughter, merry-making, decoration
• Giving, generosity, altruism
• Winter, cozy, lazy
• Peace, grace, stillness
• Child-like wonder, belief, simplicity And now, for the images!

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” — Thomas S. Monson

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” — Calvin Coolidge

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) “Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.” — B. C. Forbes

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) “Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.” — WJ Tucker

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) We wish you a Merry Christmas and an even merrier New Year!

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) “You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” –Maya Angelou

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) Warm wishes to you and yours…Happy Holidays!

Save for Facebook (Or customize using the link above) Love. Happiness. Peace.May these be your gifts this holiday season.

Save for: Facebook (Or customize using the link above) Looking for even more Christmas social post captions? Try these:

• Merry Christmas! Have you shopped our Christmas gift guide yet?It’s not too late! Sales run through the new year. Cheers
• Merry Christmas all is calm and all is bright at [business name]
• Make Christmas merry with us! Call now
• Merry Christmas Check out how our products look under the tree!
• Merry Christmas to you and yours May this be a time for friends, family, food, and fun Don’t forget to add these hashtags to your Christmas social posts:
• #merrychristmas
• #merryandbright
• #alliscalmallisbright
• #santaiscomingtotown
• #northpole LocaliQ has plenty of holiday hashtags & Instagram post ideas for you to explore as well.

Happy New Year Social Media Posts & Graphics for Facebook & Instagram

This global celebration needs little introduction. For post inspiration, look no further than these New Year’s wishes and messages. Or, consider these concepts, themes, and prompts:

• Memories, nostalgia, looking back, fulfillment
• Fresh start, renewed energy, clean slate, new beginnings
• Health, wealth, prosperity, peace
• Excitement, dreams, plans, aspirations, goals
• “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
• “Pour the champagne and let its mousse rise, like thousands of sparkling smiling eyes.” — Jared M. Brown
• “Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot Let’s move on to the visuals

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better person.” — Ben Franklin

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) May you keep your eyes on the stars and feet on the ground this year!

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) Can’t wait to see the bright adventures that await us in 2024!

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one!” — Brad Paisley

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) Happy New Year! May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) Peace, prosperity, and party on!

Save for: Facebook | Instagram (Or customize using the link above) Embrace the New Year with a gentle heart and a fierce spirit—bring it on 2024! For even more inspiration, take a look at LocaliQ’s holiday Facebook post ideas.

Happy Hanukkah Social Media Posts & Graphics for Facebook & Instagram

Remember to be inclusive with your holiday marketing! Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is observed for eight days and eight nights. It falls between late November and late December on the Gregorian calendar, based on the 25th day of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar. Themes of this Jewish holiday include:

• Light, hope, and miracles
• Connection and meaning
• Peace, blessings, and happiness
• Commemoration, remembrance, and reflection Here are a few caption ideas and prompts for celebrating Hanukkah on social media:
• Wishing your family peace and light this holiday season.
• At Hanukkah, we’re reminded of what matters most…
• May your year ahead be as bright as the light of the menorah.
• You are the light that keeps our business shining bright
• Hope your Hanukkah is great times eight!
• Hanukkah Sameach! (Happy Hanukkah)
• Chag Sameach! (Happy holiday)
• Chag Urim Sameach! (Happy Festival of Lights)
• Hanukkah reminds us where we came from. Here we go:

Facebook | Instagram Wishing you a meaningful Hanukkah and a peaceful new year.

Facebook | Instagram Wishing you eight special nights, a season of miracles, and a wonderful year ahead.

Facebook | Instagram Dreidel champs unite! Wishing you fun this Hanukkah.

Facebook | Instagram Here’s to a bright and meaningful Hanukkah

Facebook | Instagram Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy Hanukkah and new year.

Facebook | Instagram Sending warm energy your way during the Festival of Lights

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Instagram Wishing you lots of love, hugs…and gelt!

Kwanzaa Social Media Posts & Graphics for Facebook & Instagram

Kwanzaa celebrates the Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles, of African culture: Umoja (unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination), Ujima (collective work and responsibility), Ujamaa (cooperative economics), Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity), and Imani (faith). These images are perfect for Facebook and Instagram posts with messages focused on community, perseverance, and prosperity. Here are some ideas:

• The candles of Kwanzaa remind us that we shine brightest when we shine together.
• May Kwanzaa inspire you to give thanks for the community, prosperity, and love in your life
• During these seven days of Kwanzaa, be reminded that you are never alone.
• Wishing you peace, prosperity, and pride in honor of the Kwanzaa traditions.
• Kwanzaa reminds us to remember where we came from and have courage for where we’re going.
• During Kwanzaa, take time to think about your guiding principles and how they can guide you in the coming year. And now…

Facebook | Instagram May you feel the strength of family, the warmth of community, and the riches of peace this Kwanzaa and beyond.

Facebook | Instagram Gather strength from, take pride in, and bring growth to the communities of which we are a part.

Facebook | Instagram Celebrate your heritage Embrace your purpose.

Facebook | Instagram Struggles, with self-determination and support, can give way to celebration.

Facebook | Instagram Honor the past, aspire for tomorrow, and bask in the blessings of today.

Instagram Kwanzaa reminds us to gather strength from what we’ve overcome to navigate the trials that are to come.

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Holiday & Christmas Facebook Cover Photos

A festive cover photo is the perfect way to customize your Facebook business page for the holidays! Below you’ll find some images to use. Click the link below the image to save it. To customize it, use the template link at the top.

• Add “from [your business name]”
• Replace the text with your slogan
• Include an inspirational quote, word, or message
• Remove text altogether to keep it simple Let’s get started on these Christmas social media covers:

Save this Facebook cover Best wishes for the holidays and for health and happiness throughout the coming year.

Save this Facebook cover May your holidays be merry and bright this year!

Save this Facebook cover May you be reminded of all you are grateful for, from this year past and in the year to come.

Save this Facebook cover May your holidays sparkle with moments of love, flashes of joy, and feelings of warmth.

Save this Facebook cover The holidays come and go, what really matters are the people who light up our lives all year long.

Save this Facebook cover Happy everything this holiday season.

Save this Facebook cover “Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” –Kahlil Gibran

Save this Facebook cover “We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible.” — Nachum Braverman

Save this Facebook cover In this loveliest of seasons may you find many reasons for happiness.

Save this Facebook cover “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.” — Thomas S. Monson

All the Holiday Social Media Images You Need!

There you have it. Your social media shortcut for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s posts. Hopefully, all this creative inspiration hasn’t overwhelmed you! If you’d like to create your own holiday social media images, here are the correct sizes:

• Instagram post: 1080 x 1080
• Facebook post: 940 x 788
• Facebook cover: 1640 x 924 Happy holidays!