Free Funny Christmas Cards

During the holidays, people tend to get sentimental, and most Christmas cards reflect this reality. They show peaceful scenes of winter snow and happy images of people gathered around warm fires drinking eggnog and singing carols.

Is it all a little too "Kumbaya" for you?

Then check out these free funny Christmas cards. They toss out all those peaceful, reflective thoughts and throw in a lot of humor and irreverence. These aren't your grandma's Christmas cards!

Send some holiday cheer for free

Most Christmas cards aim to create feelings of peace, serenity and love during the holidays. But that's not funny! Fortunately, there are plenty of places to get free funny Christmas cards online. Here's a list of some good ones.

Free Funny Christmas eCards

JibJab offers funny a variety of animated holiday cards for both Christmas and Hanukkah. Their cards run from silly snowball fights and "farting carols" to slightly twisted cards about cutting down the Christmas tree or the dangers of toy guns as gifts. You'll need to become a member to access most of the cards, but the snowball fight card is free and fun.

eGreetings.com has a good selection of funny Christmas cards, including one that lets you "pimp Santa's ride." There's also the requisite bathroom humor cards (farting snowmen and farting reindeer) and cards featuring pets. They've also got one in which "Queer Eye for the Mean Guy" gives Scrooge a makeover. Now that's not something you'll find on every site!

American Greetings, the popular greeting card publisher, also offers free funny Christmas ecards, as well as other printable Christmas cards, invitations, letters from Santa and other printables. Sign up for a free trial.

Care2.com is one of my favorite places for free ecards because they donate money to save the rainforest with each card sent. But don't worry about this serious mission crimping their sense of humor. They've got some good funny Christmas cards. One popular one called Xmas Blues shows Santa, Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman and a Penguin rocking out with a Christmas carol (shown in the image here). They have have a lot of cards with silly pictures of pets (such as the cat shown at the top of this page).

Elf Yourself really needs no introduction. It's the enormously popular site that lets you upload your own photos and put your head on some silly dancing elves during the holidays. It's sponsored by Office Depot.

Here's an example of the kind of free card you can create at ElfYourself.com.

Free Funny Christmas Cards You Can Print

Of course, sometimes print is preferable to electronic media, so if you're looking for places to print your own free funny Christmas cards, try American Greetings.

American Greetings also offers free cards, such as the Santa card shown here, if you sign up for their free trial. You'll have access to all their free funny Christmas cards and other holiday projects during the trial, and there's no limit to the number of cards you can create and print. They have both ecards and printable cards, so the choice is yours.

If you'd like to buy printed funny Christmas cards to send out to your family and friends, be sure to visit the funny cards section of Zazzle to check out plenty of humorous cards, such as the one shown here.