There's so much to love about Thanksgiving. You get a few extra days off school and see friends and family. You get to grab second (or third) helpings of your grandma's unmatched pumpkin pie. Not to mention the fun TikTok challenges you can recreate with your besties at your annual Friendsgiving party. And when you're ready to share the fun you've had with all your followers, you'll need the perfect Thanksgiving Instagram caption. We've got you covered with the perfect things to say about the quality time spent with your friends and family this Thanksgiving.

Try a funny quote, which will serve as the *perfect* captions to showcase your Friendsgiving pics with your BFFs. Share a throwback dump of all the old pictures your mom has plastered on her mantel and use a sentimental caption to express your gratitude for your loved ones and fav memories. You can even try song lyrics and book quotes to caption your Turkey Bowl flag football recap reel.

Ready to make your followers feel thankful they stumbled across your profile? Check out this list of the best Thanksgiving Instagram captions.

🦃 Thankful Thanksgiving Captions

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  • "Here's to being thankful forever and always."
  • "Family is where happiness begins and love never ends."
  • "I'm ready to give and to receive."
  • "Blessed to have all this food."
  • "Food always tastes better when you eat it with family."
  • "Feeling thankful."
  • "Choose to be grateful, no matter what."
  • "Giving thanks is as easy as pumpkin pie."
  • "Here’s to full plates and fuller hearts."
  • "Grateful for everything."
  • "#blessed"
  • "Today is all about positive vibes."
  • "Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!"
  • "Happiness is homemade."
  • "Gratitude is the best attitude."
  • "Give thanks—today, and every day."
  • "In everything, give thanks."
  • "Eat, drink and be thankful."
  • "Give thanks today, and every day after."
  • "My heart is as full as my plate."
  • "Life is better when you're thankful."
  • "Gratitude turns what we have enough."
  • "Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude."
  • "We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all."
  • "We are happy. We are thankful. We are family."
  • "Food tastes better when you eat it with family."
  • "Together is a wonderful place to be."
  • "A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles."
  • "Good vibes and all the apple pies."
  • "Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot."
  • "Giving thanks for the simple things in life."
  • "Thank you for the food before us, the friends beside us, and the love between us."
  • "I’m thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family and dreams that turned into reality."
  • "It’s not joy that makes us grateful; it’s gratitude that makes us joyful."
  • "Thankful for family, food, and -insert current celeb crush here-."
  • "Thankful. Grateful. Blessed."
  • "Life is better when you're grateful."
  • "A thankful heart is a happy heart."
  • "There’s always something to be thankful for."
  • "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and never giving it."
  • "Let our lives be full of thanks and giving."
  • "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."
  • "Always carry a thankful heart."
  • "If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart."
  • "Home is where you treat your friends like family, and your family like friends."
  • "Good food + better company = the perfect recipe for a day of thanks."
  • "Thankful, blessed, and mashed potato obsessed."
  • "You can't live a full life on an empty stomach."
  • "Not to be corny, but I’m feeling thankful."

                🦃 Funny Thanksgiving Captions

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                • "I can't cook, but I can eat."
                • "I can't leave the table until I've tried all the food."
                • "Thanksgiving requires a whole new dress code."
                • "These are my eating pants."
                • "Thanksgiving is officially the pre-Christmas feast."
                • "I thought I was done until I saw the pie."
                • "It's time for my food coma."
                • "It's turkey time."
                • "Relationship Status: Stuffed"
                • "Here's another corny Thanksgiving caption."
                • "Does anyone know what pumpkin pie tastes like when you're hungry?"
                • "Stop, drop and butter your roll."
                • #naptime
                • "I'm just here for the pie."
                • "Give me gravy one more time."
                • "I'm so grateful for sweatpants."
                • "Already thinking about leftovers."
                • "Anything can be fixed with more stuffing."
                • "This is now a Thanksgiving dinner fan account."
                • "You miss 100% of the leftovers you don't eat."
                • "I can and will eat everything on my plate."
                • "#feastmode"
                • "It's leg day."
                • "With my cutie pies."
                • "Stuffed like the turkey."
                • "To do list: eat, drink, sleep."
                • "Keep your eyes on the pies."
                • "Pumpkin spice and everything nice."
                • "Bad day to be a turkey."
                • "Sorry, I'm too full to think of a better caption."
                • "Stuffing is the glue that holds my family together."
                • "I can't button my pants, but it was worth it."
                • "Here’s to family, food, and awkwardly avoiding politics at the dinner table."
                • "When turkeys get into a fight, they get the stuffing knocked out of them!"
                • "Raise your gobble-let for a toast!"
                • "Stuffed with stuffing!"
                • "Gobble 'til you wobble."
                • "Keep calm and gobble on."
                • "Thankful, blessed, and mashed potato obsessed."
                • "I can’t eat another bite. Oh, look, pie!"
                • "I came in like a butterball."
                • "May your turkey be moist and may no one use that word to describe it."
                • "We offered the turkey some dinner, but he was already stuffed."
                • "Leftovers are for quitters."
                • "Happy Thanksgiving, may your hearts be as full as your plates today!"
                • "Pies before guys."
                • "Clear plates, full stomachs, can’t lose."
                • "Hey I just met you, and this is gravy. But here's my stuffing, so carve me maybe." — Mitchell Bader
                • "Feast your eyes on us."
                • "FACT: You can't answer your family's questions if you always have food in your mouth."
                • "You miss 100% of the leftovers you don't eat."
                • "Nobody puts gravy in the corner."
                • "Thanksgiving is about carbo loading to have the endurance for Black Friday."
                • "Every year I say I won't overdo it on Thanksgiving, yet here we are."
                • "*entering feast mode*"
                • "Petition for a new Thanksgiving dress code: Sweatpants."
                • "Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes."
                • "Zero plucks given."
                • "Fifty shades of gravy."
                • "Spice, spice baby
                • "And they lived apple-y ever after."
                • "Love at first bite."
                • "May your pants stay stretchy, your bellies stay full."
                • "Here's the one photo we got before the food coma hit..."
                • "If you need me, I'll be on the couch."
                • "I'm thankful to have a family who takes eating as seriously as I do."

                🦃 Thanksgiving Quotes Captions

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                • "Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life." — Lindsey Bareham
                • "An attitude of gratitude brings great things." — Yogi Bhajan
                • "Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other." — Randy Pausch
                • "Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home." — Wilbur D. Nesbit
                • "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
                • "Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of the wonderful inside." —Willard Scott
                • "Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life." — Catherine Pulsifer
                • "These sweatpants are all that fits me right now." — Regina George, Mean Girls
                • "When you two are done using that turkey as a courtship device, can you put it in the oven?" — Kurt Hummel, Glee
                • "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life." — Melody Beattie
                • "Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." — Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
                • "When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed." — Maya Angelou
                • "Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants." – Kevin James
                • "Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." – Amy Grant
                • "If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." – W. Clement Stone
                • "Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." – W.J. Cameron
                • "When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup." – Sam Lefkowitz
                • "No one has ever become poor by giving." – Anne Frank
                • "I come from a family where gravy is a beverage." – Erma Bombeck
                • "Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude." – Nigel Hamilton
                • "Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough." – Oprah Winfrey
                • "I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast." — A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
                • "It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour." — Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
                • "It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters, as what’s on the chairs." — W.S. Gilbert
                • "You can't have Thanksgiving without turkey. That's like Fourth of July without apple pie or Friday with no two pizzas." — Joey, Friends
                • "Don’t you put words in people’s mouths. You put turkey in people’s mouths." — Joey, Friends
                • "Better Thanksgiving than never." — Dan Humphrey, Gossip Girl
                • "Reliving past pain and getting depressed is what Thanksgiving's all about." — Chandler, Friends
                • "And when a nice boy who adores you offers you pie, say 'Thank you.'— William,This Is Us
                • "When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed." — Maya Angelou
                • "It's not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour." — Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
                • "When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." —Willie Nelson
                • "What if, today, we were grateful for everything?" —Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
                • "Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time." —Dale Dauten
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