55 Festive Holiday Captions and Quotes for Instagram

Festive season is finally here, and that means it's time to break out the holiday decorations, sip some hot cocoa, watch your favorite Christmas movies, and post your best wintry photos. Of course, every post needs the perfect caption, so we've rounded up some of the best holiday captions and quotes for your merriest photos. These 55 Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, New Year's, and Christmas captions are sure to bring a little festive cheer to your feed.

Christmas Instagram Captions

It's all fun and games until Santa checks the naughty list.

"Son of a nutcracker!" — "Elf"

Up to snow good.

The tree isn't the only thing getting lit this Christmas.

"Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind." — "Miracle on 34th Street"

All spruced up.

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."

Christmas is the one day a year that I'm a morning person.

"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings." — "It's a Wonderful Life"

There's snow place like home.

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." — "Elf"

"May your days be merry and bright."

RGF: Resting Grinch face.

"We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup." — "Elf"

"Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal." — "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York"

Don't get your tinsel in a tangle.

Consider this post my digital Christmas card.

Eat, drink, and be merry.

"Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see." — "The Polar Express"

"It's the most wonderful time of the year." — Andy Williams

New Year's Instagram Captions

Cheers to 2020 finally ending — here's to 2021!

The best is yet to come.

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." — Oprah Winfrey

Hindsight really is 2020.

New year, new adventures.

Cheers to the new year!

Sip, sip, hooray!

Here's to a fresh start in 2021.

"It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life, for me. And I'm feeling good." — Nina Simone

2021 can't come fast enough.

"Thank you, next." — Ariana Grande

365 days, 365 new opportunities.

2020: The best year for toilet paper, stretchy pants, and Netflix.

2020 was one for the (history) books.

"It's the final countdown." — Europe

Thanksgiving Instagram Captions

Gobble 'til you wobble.

Sweet as pumpkin pie.

Oh my gourd, I love Thanksgiving!

A thankful heart is a happy heart.

You're the apple of my pie.

May your hearts be as full as your plates this Thanksgiving.

Just a couple of cutie pies.

Call me a turkey, because I'm stuffed.

Eat, drink, and be thankful.

Let the gourd times roll.

Hannukah Instagram Captions

I love Hannukah a latke.

"The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle." — Rabbi Irving Greenberg

Happy challah days!

"Put on your yarmulke. Here comes Hanukkah. So much funukkah. To celebrate Hanukkah" — Adam Sandler

"The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle" — Robert Altinger

Let's get lit!

May your holidays be as bright as your lit menorah.

When life gives you potatoes, make latkes.

"A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light." — Moshe Davis

Eight nights of light.