The Best Christmas Instagram Captions to Help You #Sleigh This Holiday Season

The most wonderful time of year is almost here! Once you’ve wrapped up all your gifts for family and gifts for friends, you’ll be ready to enjoy your favorite Christmas activities—which likely involve snapping a few photos for social media to share with all of your loved ones. If you’re in need of the perfect Christmas Instagram captions, we’ve got you covered with the merriest of them all.

Once you’ve broken out the Christmas lights for the lawn, perfected your Christmas tree, and popped Christmas dinner in the oven, you’re ready to celebrate. So, deck your home—and yourself—in everything red, green, and jolly, and make sure you share those photos to Instagram so everyone can appreciate the effort you put into turning your home into a winter wonderland.

Whether you’re going for funny, punny, or cute, we have caption ideas for every kind of Instagram you’ll be looking to post this holiday season. Plus, we’ve included inspiration from our favorite holiday songs and Christmas movies to ensure you share your favorite moments with friends and family near and far. Make sure one of them is a quote from Elf, because we all know it’s not Christmas without someone yelling, “Santa’s coming? I KNOW HIM!”

Funny Christmas Captions

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• I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, but if the white runs out, I’ll drink the red.

• Being good for goodness’ sake was not enough motivation.

• We’re just a bunch of candy canes—sweet and slightly twisted.

• Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and receipts for all major purchases.

• All I want for Christmas is you (and maybe some Christmas cookies, too).

• Christmas break to-do list: Eat, drink, nap.

• What happens under the mistletoe stays under the mistletoe.

• All I want for Christmas is you food.

• Dear Santa...I can explain.

• 100% on the naughty list.

• The tree isn’t the only thing getting lit this year.

• Current status: ready for a long winter’s nap.

• The only day of the year I’m a morning person.

• Feliz naughty dog.

• Dear Santa...can you please define “nice?”

• It’s beginning to *cost* a lot like Christmas...

• Christmas is coming.

• Believe in your elf.

• But first, let me take an elfie.

• Feast mode.

• Dear Santa, is it too late to say sorry?

• Me every day: slay. Me in December: sleigh.

• My presence is the present.

• What did one ornament say to another? “I like hanging with you.”

• Single bells, single bells, single all the way.

• Never fir-get.

• Bah, humbug.

• ‘Tis the season for stretchy pants.

Cute Christmas Captions

• Fairy lights on winter nights.

• Friends like you make the season bright.

• Christmas is not as much opening presents as it is opening our hearts.

• All roads lead home for the holidays.

• The elves did it.

• A Christmas to rival any Hallmark movie.

• As you get older, your Christmas list gets shorter because the things you want can’t be bought.

• I’ve got snowflakes on the brain.

• May your days be merry and bright.

• Peace on earth.

• All I want for Christmas is you!

• I love you snow much!

• Merry Christmas to all!

• Meet me under the mistletoe.

• A December to remember.

• It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

• Sweater weather is better together.

• Happy holidays from Santa’s favorite elves.

• When life gives you snow, make snow angels.

• My favorite color is Christmas lights.

• Love the giver more than the gift.

• If kisses were snowflakes, I’d send you a blizzard.

• You rock my Christmas socks.

• Fa la la la.

• Stay cozy.

• Warning: reindeer crossing.

• ‘Tis the season to sparkle.

• Some people are worth melting for.

• Hurry down the chimney tonight.

• Jingle bell rockin’.

• Baby, it’s cold outside.

• I love you from head to mistletoe.

• All is calm, all is bright.

Punny Christmas Captions

• I’ll be ho-ho-home for Christmas.

• It was love at frost bight.

• The forecast is un-brr-lieveable.

• Love at frost sight.

• Say it ain’t snow.

• Sleigh all day.

• Elfie time!

• I’m dreaming of a wine Christmas.

• Up to snow good.

• What you see is my resting Grinch face.

• All the jingle ladies, all the jingle ladies.

• I’m feelin’ pine.

• Birch, please.

• I only have ice for you.

• There’s snow place like home.

• Yule be sorry.

• Happy holi-bae.

• The snuggle is real.

• Resting Grinch face.

• I’m all spruced up.

• Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.

• It’s s’more than a feeling.

• Your presents is requested at the dinner table.

• You’re the whole package.

• We’ve got chemis-tree.

• Christmas time and I’m feelin’ pine.

• Treat yo’elf.

• But wait—there’s myrrh.

• Make it rein.

• Have your (s)elf a merry little Christmas.

• It’s a winterful life.

Christmas Captions Inspired by Movies

• “Just because it’s Christmas. And at Christmas you tell the truth. To me, you are perfect.” —Love Actually

• “Some people are worth melting for.” —Frozen

• “It’s Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.” —The Holiday

• “Santa’s coming? I KNOW HIM!” —Elf

• “It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year we are the people that we always hoped we would be.” —Scrooged
  

• “Merry Christmas ya filthy animals” —Home Alone 2: Lost In New York

• “Do you want to build a snowman?” —Frozen

• “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.” —The Polar Express
  

• “Christmas isn’t just a day; it’s a frame of mind.” —Miracle on 34th Street
  

• “I realized that Christmas is a time to be with people you love.” —Love Actually
  

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

• “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?” —How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  

• “Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.” —The Polar Express

• “It’s all humbug, I tell you. Humbug!” —Scrooge

• “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?” —A Charlie Brown Christmas
  

• “Treat every day like Christmas.” —Elf

• “Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.” —Christmas Vacation
  

• “There’s a certain magic that comes with the very first snow. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well, something wonderful is bound to happen.” —Frosty the Snowman

• “You’ll shoot your eye out kid!”—A Christmas Story

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

• “I believe, I believe, it’s silly, but I believe.” —Miracle on 34th Street

• “Cheer up, dude. It’s Christmas.” —The Grinch

• “And we’re going to have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas.” —Christmas Vacation

Christmas Captions Inspired by Songs

• “If there is love in your heart and your mind, you will feel Christmas all the time.” —Faith Hill

• “Baby it’s cold outside.” —Frank Loesser

• “Holidays are joyful, there’s always something new. But everyday’s a holiday, when I’m near you.” —The Carpenters

• “Feeling Christmas all around, and I’m trying to play it cool.” —Ariana Grande

• “Under the mistletoe. Watching the fire glow. And telling me, ‘I love you’.” —Taylor Swift

• “I hope you remember every December that bright shining light from above.” —Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus

• “What a bright time, it’s the right time to rock the night away.” — Bobby Helms

• “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” —Meredith Willson

• “There’s no place like home for the holidays.” —Robert Allen and Al Stillman

• “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.” —Irving Berlin

• “Joy to the world!” —Bing Crosby

• “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.” —Diana Krall

• “On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree.” — John Denver & The Muppets

• “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away.” —Wham!

• “Frosty the snowman, was a jolly happy soul.” —The Ronettes

• “All I want for Christmas is you.” —Mariah Carey

• “The party’s on, the feeling’s here that only comes this time of year.” —Paul McCartney

• “I don’t know if there’ll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.” —Johnny Marks and Burl Ives

• “We can hardly stand the wait. Please Christmas, don’t be late.” —Alvin & The Chipmunks
  

• “Have yourself a merry little Christmas.” —Judy Garland

• “Deck the halls with boughs of holly.” —Thomas Olliphant
  

• “Rockin’ around the Christmas tree, at the Christmas party hop.” —Johnny Marks and Brenda Lee
  

• “Silver bells, silver bells. It’s Christmas time in the city.” —Bing Crosby

• “As long as you love me so, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” —Vaughn Monroe

• “Although it’s been said, many times, many ways... Merry Christmas to you.” —Mel Tormé

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