April Social Media Holidays 2024

You’ll find holidays/observational days coming up in April. Take advantage of the fun and unique opportunity these days gives you to spice up your social media content.

How do pirates celebrate April Fools' Day? They walk the prank.

Seems only fitting that we open this month's social media holiday article with a little April Fool’s joke. 


Now, onto the good stuff. Below you’ll find holidays/observational days coming up in April. Take advantage of the fun and unique opportunity these days gives you to spice up your social media content.

April social media holidays:

  • April 1st - April Fool’s Day (Free Canva template below)
  • April 2nd - National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day 
  • April 4th - National Burrito Day
  • April 5th - National Self Care Day
  • April 10th - Global Work From Home Day
  • April 11th - National Pet Day
  • April 13th - International Plant Appreciation Day 
  • April 14th - Good Deeds Day
  • April 18th - Adult Autism Awareness Day
  • April 20th - National Cheddar Cheese Fries Day
  • April 21st - World Creativity and Innovation Day

You’re not going to want to miss our FREE Canva template of the month! Click this link to access a fully customizable Canva template for April Fools Day!

Looking for more inspiration? 


Check out this masterfully done National Cheddar Fries Day post for Charley’s Cheesesteaks.

Charley’s Cheesesteaks does a great job at capitalizing on a social media holiday directly relating to their business by turning Cheddar Cheese Fries Day into a contest and unique hashtag - #MunCheeese.


The video they included is truly mouth watering as well, who wouldn’t want cheese fries after watching that! 

If you need a little help coming up with unique and fresh content or copy for your holiday posts, don’t worry!

Cloud Campaign offers a FREE caption generator that can help you come up with tons of holiday copy in a flash! Check that out here.

We also have a whole article on how to use AI in content creation that can help take your content creation game to the next level! 

And if you want even more social media holidays to browse, check out our 2024 social media holidays calendar. With multiple FREE Canva templates, AI caption prompts, and hundreds of holidays!See you next month for a breakdown of May’s holidays!