Hanukkah — Free Holidays & Seasonal Social Post Template
Holidays & Seasonal · v1.0.0 · Updated 2026-11-03 · Instagram, Facebook & X · HTML + CSS
What's included
Features
About this template
Hanukkah — Free Menorah Greeting & Offer Post Template
Hanukkah is a free social post template for the eight-night Jewish festival of lights, which in 2026 begins at sundown on Friday 4 December and ends on Saturday 12 December. It is drawn entirely in CSS, so the menorah, candles and flames recolour to your brand and stay sharp at every size, with no stock photo to license.
A menorah that lights the way it does at home
At the centre is a nine-branched Hanukkah menorah (a hanukkiah) in polished silver, with blue-and-white striped candles. The shamash, the helper candle used to light the others, stands raised in the middle on its own stem. In the animated export it is lit first, then the eight flames come on one after another and keep flickering. Each flame has a warm glow against the night-blue sky, and a few silver stars twinkle around it.
Hebrew and English together
Under the menorah, an editable Hebrew line, "חג חנוכה שמח" (Chag Chanukah Sameach, happy Hanukkah), is set right to left in Frank Ruhl Libre, a typeface that carries Hebrew and Latin. Below it, "Happy *Hanukkah*" is set in a large serif with the festival name in gold, followed by a short warm message. Clear the Hebrew field and it disappears.
A greeting, or eight nights of deals
The optional gold chip suits an "8 nights · 8 deals" campaign, a gift guide or opening hours during the festival. Leave it empty for a pure greeting from a school, synagogue, community group or company page. Your handle and an optional logo sit at the bottom.
Every size
The 4:5 portrait is for the Instagram and Facebook feed, the 9:16 Story for Stories and WhatsApp Status, and on 16:9 and LinkedIn the menorah sits beside the text. For one post per night, pair it with Advent Calendar Deal recoloured in blue and silver, and use Thank You after the festival.
Extend with AI
Take This Post Further With AI
Ask an AI assistant to adapt the Hanukkah HTML and CSS: write eight nightly offers, add the night number above the menorah, or recolour it in gold and cream for a softer greeting.
Prompt to recreate it
Copy this into your AI assistant of choice to build the effect from scratch, or as a jumping-off point for your own variant:
Create a 1080×1350 Hanukkah greeting social post in plain HTML and CSS.
- A night-blue gradient background from #071a45 at the top to #1d3f91 at the bottom, with a warm glow above the menorah and five small silver ✦ stars.
- A small uppercase silver label "Festival of lights · 8 nights" at the top.
- A nine-branched menorah drawn with CSS: a silver horizontal bar, a short stem and a rounded base; nine blue-and-white striped candles on the bar, the middle one (the shamash) raised on its own short stem.
- Each candle has a teardrop flame (radial gradient white to yellow to orange) with a soft glow; animate the flames lighting one by one, middle first, then flickering, with a prefers-reduced-motion fallback.
- Below: the Hebrew greeting "חג חנוכה שמח" in gold (dir="rtl", Frank Ruhl Libre), a large serif headline "Happy Hanukkah" with "Hanukkah" in gold, a two-line message, and a gold pill "8 nights · 8 deals · starts 4 Dec".
- The handle at the bottom. Size everything with a CSS variable --u equal to 1% of the shorter side.Want to tighten it up first? Run this prompt through the AI Prompt Studio to score it across 8 quality dimensions, catch anti-patterns, and tune the wording for Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini before you paste it in.
Why use it
Why Use the Hanukkah Template
How it’s different
How It’s Different From Canva-Style Templates
Step by step
How to Use
- 1Pick the sizeChoose Portrait 4:5 (the Instagram feed default), Square, Story / Reel, Landscape 16:9 for X, a 1200×627 LinkedIn image or a 1000×1500 Pinterest pin. Hanukkah opens at 1080×1350.
- 2Edit the textClick any text in the preview, or use the fields on the left (label, hebrew greeting, headline, message and more). Wrap words in *asterisks* to colour them.
- 3Add your imagesClick a photo area in the preview or use Images to upload your logo. Images stay in your browser.
- 4Match your brandApply your saved brand kit or one of 12 palettes, set exact colours, and choose heading and body fonts from any Google Font or your own uploaded font.
- 5Preview it in the feedSwitch the preview to Instagram, Story, X or LinkedIn to see the post with your name, handle and caption, and fix anything the quality checks flag.
- 6Download, save or bulk createDownload PNG, JPG or PDF, every size as a ZIP, or copy the HTML. Save it to My designs to reuse later, or turn a CSV into dozens of posts with Bulk create.
Real-world uses
Common Use Cases
Follow it up
Email Templates to Match the Hanukkah Post
Reach the people who are not on social media with a matching email from the free responsive HTML email templates: Holiday Greetings Email. Both libraries use the same brand colours and fonts, so the post and the email look like one campaign.
Got questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
Hanukkah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday 4 December and ends at nightfall on Saturday 12 December. It lasts eight nights, and the dates follow the Hebrew calendar, so they move each year in the Gregorian calendar.
That is the shamash, the helper candle used to light the other eight. It traditionally stands apart, higher or lower than the rest, which is why it is raised in the middle and lit first in the animation.
Yes. It is an ordinary text field set right to left. Keep "חג חנוכה שמח", write another greeting such as "חג אורים שמח", or clear the field and the line disappears.
Both are common transliterations of the same Hebrew word. Change the headline to whichever your audience uses; the page and template work for searches with either spelling.
Portrait post 1080×1350 (4:5): Instagram feed (recommended), Facebook and LinkedIn feeds, X portrait. Square post 1080×1080 (1:1): Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and X feeds. Story / Reel 1080×1920 (9:16): Instagram and Facebook Stories, Reel covers. Landscape post 1600×900 (16:9): X feed image, Facebook landscape. LinkedIn image 1200×627 (1.91:1): LinkedIn shared image and link posts, Facebook link images. Pinterest pin 1000×1500 (2:3): Pinterest standard pin (the recommended 2:3 ratio). Switch sizes in the editor and the layout adapts, or click "All sizes (ZIP)" to download every size at once.
Yes. Choose Export, then "Bulk create from CSV", and paste rows from a spreadsheet or upload a CSV whose column names match the Hanukkah fields. Every row becomes one post, and you download them all as a ZIP.
Yes. The preview switches between the plain design and mock-ups of an Instagram feed post, an Instagram Story, an X post and a LinkedIn post, using the name, handle and logo from your brand kit and the caption you type.
Yes. "Copy HTML" and "Download .html" give you one self-contained file: the markup, all the CSS and links to the Google Fonts it uses. "Fork to My Code" saves an editable copy in the UI Snippets editor. The file records the template name and version (v1.0.0).
Yes. It is free for personal and commercial posts, with no sign-up and no watermark. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you type or upload is sent to a server.