Christmas and New Year AI prompts: your holiday guide for 2026
The holiday season is the busiest six weeks of the year for posting, selling and sending wishes. It starts with Black Friday on 27 November and runs to New Year’s Day on 1 January 2027.
This guide collects every holiday library on AI Prompt Guide, 56 free prompts in total, with a simple plan for when to use each one.
Key dates for the 2026 holidays
| Date | Day | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| 27 November | Black Friday | Sale launch: emails, ads, SMS |
| 30 November | Cyber Monday | Last-chance push for the sale |
| 1–14 December | Early December | Gift guides, teasers, Christmas photo shoots |
| 15–20 December | Mid-December | Last-order dates, gifting pushes, Secret Santa |
| 24–25 December | Christmas Eve and Day | Family photos, greeting videos, wishes |
| 26 December | Boxing Day (Saturday) | Clearance sales and “spend your gift cards” posts |
| 31 December – 1 January | New Year | Party photos, year-in-review, resolutions |
1. Christmas photo edits
This season’s most popular AI photo looks are cosy knitwear by the tree, matching family pyjamas, snowy Christmas markets, a fireplace with hot cocoa, and a tiny you inside a snow globe.
The Christmas AI photo prompts cover portraits, couples, family, pets and cards. Two lines make the biggest difference:
- “Keep the face exactly the same”, because outfit and background changes make faces drift
- “Add no other people”, because family scenes tempt the model to add an extra relative
2. Christmas videos
Turn your Christmas photo into an 8-second video with snow falling and lights twinkling, or create scenes from scratch: a tree lighting up in a dark room, a gift unwrapping in slow motion, or Santa’s sleigh flying over your city.
The Christmas AI video prompts also include business-ready clips: a product ad under the tree and an animated team greeting for LinkedIn.
3. Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Boxing Day sales
If you sell anything, the holiday sale prompts cover the whole campaign:
- Plan the offer: compare a discount, a bundle and a gift with purchase against your margin
- Write the sequence: teaser, launch, bestsellers, last 24 hours and final hours emails
- Ads: Meta ads in four angles and Google Search ads with character counts
- Boxing Day: clearance posts in a relaxed, post-Christmas tone
- After the sale: a review of what worked and a January plan to keep new customers
Tip: from Black Friday to mid-December, “arrives before Christmas” is often a bigger selling point than the discount. Put your delivery cut-off in every email and post.
4. Christmas reels, captions and wishes
The Christmas reels, captions and wishes library plans December as a sequence: gift guides early, gifting pushes mid-month, warm family content in Christmas week, then reflections.
It also covers the jobs everyone puts off: Secret Santa invites, gift ideas for difficult people, a Christmas party plan, a Christmas lunch timeline, and professional messages for clients.
5. New Year 2027
Two libraries take you from 31 December into January:
- New Year 2027 photo prompts: glam party portraits, a rooftop couple toast, a friends’ countdown, the “Goodbye 2026, Hello 2027” split image, a 1920s Gatsby look and a personal vision board
- New Year resolutions, plans and wishes: a 10-question year-in-review, resolutions turned into weekly habits, a 90-day plan, a 2027 business plan, and wishes and captions
A simple holiday plan
- This week: set up your Black Friday offer and early-access list with the sale planning prompt.
- Early December: make your Christmas photos and cards with the photo prompts, and plan your month with the December content calendar.
- Christmas week: send wishes and post your animated greeting.
- 26–31 December: run your Boxing Day sale, then review your year before setting 2027 goals.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! 🎄