Galentine’s Day approaches, so we’ve compiled a bunch of fun ideas to try with your friends to make the day memorable, including free customizable templates for party invites, thoughtful crafts, silly social media posts, and more.
What is Galentine’s Day?
Everybody knows what happens on February 14, but what about February 13? Though a more recent creation, Galentine’s Day is a holiday sweeping the globe that centers on celebrating your friends rather than romantic partners.
Galentine’s Day is a holiday meant for women as a day to celebrate their friendships and everything that goes with them. This day is a creation of Amy Poehler’s character Leslie Knope on an episode of Parks and Recreation.
How do you celebrate Galentine’s Day?
Because Galentine’s Day is a fairly recent creation by a fictional character, there are no set rules or guidelines for how to celebrate this day. Thankfully, that means that you can really do whatever you’d like with all your favorite people. Brunch has popped up as a popular event tradition for the day, as well as crafting and showing your friends adoration and affection in whichever ways are most comfortable and personal to you.
20 Ways to celebrate Galentine’s Day
Because there are so many ways to love your friends and celebrate them in return, we’ve compiled a few ideas to get the ball rolling for your holiday spread. Try any of these Galentine’s Day ideas, and who knows, maybe you’ll start a new tradition that will enjoyed for many years to come.
5 Easy ways to celebrate Galentine’s Day
1. Design a Galentine’s Day card.
- Anything that shares a fun, thoughtful, or empowering message with the gals in your life will make an excellent card to send to your friends this year.
2. Build a photo collage.
- Put all your favorite babes in one place by making a collage with photos of all your buds mixed and matched with silly filters and overlays
3. Set up a fun event for all your friends.
- Round up your best friends for any of the event ideas below to celebrate everyone taking that time for each other.
4. Make something special to remember your celebration.
- Whether you’re creating a new tradition or holding fast to parties of days gone by, take photos or videos and memorialize all the fun you’ve had so you can reminisce with each other in the future.
5. Post about all your besties on social media.
- Try the Galentine’s Day social media ideas below to include friends who can’t be with you in person for your festivities.
5 Fun Galentine’s Day event ideas
1. Host a Leslie Knope-style brunch.
- Whether at your place or a restaurant, hosting a Galentine’s Day brunch will bring you and your crew back to the original creation of the holiday
2. Organize a cookie exchange.
- It’s not for Christmas, so this cookie exchange can be extra sweet, separately themed, or whatever else you want it to be.
3. Challenge your friends to a dance-off.
- Get moving for Galentine’s Day by challenging your friends to take on some fun holiday choreo.
4. Invite friends to a cocktail party.
- Have a drink or two and cheers the successes and strengths of your best friends on Galentine’s Day.
5. Learn a skill together, like a craft or cooking class.
- Knowledge is power, and how better to celebrate the creation of Leslie Knope than by learning a new skill, like ceramic pottery or a new cuisine.
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5 Galentine’s Day social media post ideas
1. Create a social banner.
- Living in our digital world means you can celebrate holidays with the touch of a button. Make festive banners for all your social accounts in seconds with free and customizable Adobe Express templates.
2. Add Facebook and Instagram posts.
- Turn up the Galentine’s Day cheer with social posts that reach out to all your best gals. Special shout-outs and nostalgic pictures will make everyone feel included in the day.
3. Make BFF TikTok videos or Reels together.
- If you’re trying out a new dance together or simply collecting footage of the party, put together a TikTok or Reel of all your best Galentine’s Day moments.
4. Drop a themed meme.
- Create your own BFF meme or use an Adobe Express meme template to really make your Galentine’s Day vibe known.
5. Create Instagram Stories together.
- Show your friends you’re thinking about them by dropping a mention in your Stories and sharing photos and videos of your celebrations together.
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5 Galentine’s Day quotes for captions
- "Ladies celebrating ladies — it’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas." - Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
- "Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast-style." - Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
- "I am a goddess, a glorious female warrior." - Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
- "We have to remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles, and work. Or waffles, friends, work. But work has to come third." - Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
- "I guess some people object to powerful depictions of awesome ladies." - Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation
Free Adobe Express Galentine’s Day templates to send to your besties
Looking for more Galentine’s Day ideas? Try these free and customizable Adobe Express templates for all your holiday plans, parties, crafts, and social media posts.