Christmas themes and social media ideas

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Thinking of Christmas social media ideas can be a job in itself and in a busy season like the festive holidays, your time is already stretched enough.

Updated December 2023

Looking for some inspiration for your Christmas and seasonal posts? Check out my theme ideas below and be sure to share your own in the comments!

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Christmas social media ideas

Holiday Traditions

Christmas traditions can be found across the world and vary country to country.

UK

• Attending a Pantomime
• Writing and posting Christmas cards
• Attending a children’s Nativity play
• Decorating the home and tree
• Attending a town Christmas tree/street lighting
• Christmas jumpers
• Christmas dinner, complete with sprouts, being eaten at lunch time on Christmas day
• Watching the Kings speech, as well as seasonal specials
• Opening a daily Advent calendar
• Celebrating the 12 days of Christmas-these actually start on Christmas day and finish on twelve night when all the decorations in the house must come down to ensure good luck for the year ahead.

Non religious themes 

Colourways for Christmas social media ideas

• Blue, white and silver
• Green, Red and gold
• Multicoloured
• Neon multicoloured
• Black, white and silver
• Pink and black
• Scandi/Norwegian colours and patterns

Traditional Christmas Icons

• Santa and the North Pole
• Traditional scenes-villages filled with snow covered houses and trains
• Snow men, Frosty, snow and snowflakes
• Penguins and polar bears (not together of course!)
• Reindeer-with or without shiny, red noses!

Pop Culture themes perfect for Christmas social media ideas

• Harry Potter and The Wizarding World
• The Narnia book, and film, series
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Elf
• Mickey, Minnie and pals
• Disney Parks
• Star Wars (and their infamous USA Christmas Specials)
• Princesses (check out their seasonal specials like Belle’s Enchanted Christmas)
• Frozen
• Pixar 
• The Avengers-Christmas 2021 saw the release of the Hawkeye series
• Coca Cola-The Holidays are coming! Think classic icons and red
• Friends (the tv show)
• Dr Suess and The Grinch
• Moomins of Moominvalley
• Aardman and Nick Park, always on TV in the UK during the season
• American Hallmark Films

What themes and ideas inspire you to create content this festive season? Share them with us in the comments!