Make The Holidays Memorable With Custom Patches

Make The Holidays Memorable With Custom Patches

If you're looking for the perfect way to celebrate the holidays, show your customers you appreciate them, and raise your brand profile, look no further. Custom holiday patches are the answer!

The holiday season is a magical time filled with celebration, connection, and creativity. Holiday custom patches make great stocking stuffers, are a festive way to spread seasonal cheer, and can be an excellent marketing tool for your business. 

Why Choose Custom Holiday Patches?

Custom patches stand out because they’re versatile, durable, and creative. Unlike ordinary decorations or gifts, custom patches allow you to tailor every detail—from design to materials—to suit your vision. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or New Year’s, patches can reflect your unique style and values.

Patches also create an outstanding opportunity for businesses, community groups, and families. You can use them to:

  • Promote your holiday events.
  • Give as thoughtful keepsakes.
  • Decorate clothing, stockings, or holiday accessories.
  • Add a personal touch to gifts or cards.

How Holiday Custom Patches Can Boost Brand Awareness

Many business stick to traditional marketing approaches for holidays -- festive emails, themed social media posts, and limited-time discounts. For a business that wants to stand out, holiday custom patches offer something unique and tangible to customers, staff and vendors alike

Holiday Custom Patches: Low Cost, High Impact

One of the most appealing aspects of custom patches is their affordability. Compared to other promotional items, patches are budget-friendly, especially when ordered in bulk. At the same time, they’re a powerful marketing choice. They’re durable, reusable, and visually striking—everything you want in a promotional tool.

Because patches are lightweight and easy to ship, they’re also ideal for e-commerce businesses. Include them in holiday orders as a surprise gift to delight your customers and encourage repeat business.

Popular Ways to Use Holiday Custom Patches

The holiday season offers the opportunity to connect with customers on an emotional level, and let them know you appreciate them and their business. That can carry over into increased customer loyalty and word-of-mouth business in the following year.

Let’s take a look at specific ways holiday custom patches can help your seasonal marketing program.

Customer Appreciation

Give holiday custom patches to loyal customers to show them you appreciate them. You can incorporate your company logo with festive designs to strengthen brand identity as you spread holiday cheer.

Event Merchandise

Holiday patches are an excellent merchandise item if your business hosts holiday events. For fundraisers, charity drives, holiday parties and other events, they add a fun, festive touch that can promote fundraising and keep your brand in the forefront.

Fun Giveaways

Custom patches are outstanding giveaways for holiday promotions. Offer them as part of a giveaway campaign or as a bonus for reaching a spending threshold. For example:

  • Customers who spend $50 or more can get a festive patch featuring your brand mascot in a Santa hat.
  • Have customers share a photo of their favorite product on social media with a specific hashtag, and receive a holiday-themed patch in return.

These campaigns drive sales and increase customer engagement. Plus, every time someone sees the patch, they’ll remember your brand’s festive spirit.

Limited-Edition Giveaways

People love exclusivity, especially during the holidays. By designing a limited-edition holiday patch, you can tap into that excitement. 

Create a seasonal collectible that customers can’t resist. Give the limited edition holiday gift patches away with purchases to celebrate the season, and associate your brand with holiday fun. They can even drive extra business, bringing buyers in for the patches before they’re gone. They’ll be a great seasonal reminder of your brand, and customers will want to collect them all.

Holiday Patch Gifts

Encourage using holiday custom patches as gifts. Not necessarily as gifts themselves, but as stand-ins for larger items. For example, let’s say you sell audio-visual gear. Your customer could give the gift recipient holiday gift patches with your logo and a picture of a 60” TV or an AV receiver. They can bring in the patch to your store and redeem it for the real gift. Give them the patch as well, and they’ll have a favorite keepsake of a memorable holiday.

Other businesses could go even bigger with the idea. An automobile dealer could give the buyer a holiday gift patch that could be presented to receive a car or truck purchased in advance. That’ll be sure to make just about anyone’s holiday memorable indeed!

Social Media

Be sure to link your holiday custom patches and holiday patch gifts to your social media. That boosts your profile even more and encourages engagement. Encourage your customers to share photos of how they use your patches. You can even run a contest or offer discounts or other freebees to people who post the best or most creative pictures of your patches. 

Holiday Packaging Enhancements

Another great way to use holiday custom patches is as enhancements to your holiday packaging. Make your patches stand out by adding a small, festive patch to gift boxes or bags. Your customers will appreciate these small holiday patch gifts and tokens of your appreciation. That can lead to increased customer engagement and more word-of-mouth referrals.

Design Considerations

To really reach people with your patches, give your creativity free rein when designing them. Think of the holiday you want to commemorate, and incorporate elements of the holiday into your design. 

Whether you choose a traditional motif with say, snowflakes and Christmas stockings, something more contemporary or a mix of the two, design to bring a smile to people’s faces and get them talking. Your custom patch provider will be glad to help you create the ideal design.

Some other design tips to consider:

Feel Free to Experiment

Traditional shapes such as ovals, squares, circles and rectangles are always popular, but don’t be afraid to consider other shapes as well. Snowflakes, Christmas trees, menorahs and other shapes add an extra point of interest that will prompt people to notice your patches.

 The same applies to patch colors. Mix in some contemporary hues with the traditional red, green, silver and gold to create a striking theme.

Keep the Design Relatively Simple

A clean, uncluttered design is your best bet to give your patch the most visual impact. Don’t overcrowd the patch with too much detail.

Collaborate with Your Patch Provider

Your holiday custom patch supplier can work with you to craft the best looking patches for your design. At Patches4Less.com, we have 20 years’ experience creating outstanding patches for all seasons. Our experienced designers will work to create patches that look exactly the way you want, and our quality control process will ensure your patches are the highest quality possible.

Want to find out more about how holiday patches can help your organization? Cal us toll free at (866) 847=2824, email us at [email protected], or fill out our no-obligation Free Quote form. We look forward to serving all your custom holiday patch needs.


Rick Cundiff

Rick Cundiff

Content Director, Blogger

Rick Cundiff spent 15 years as a newspaper journalist before joining TJM Promos. He has been researching and writing about custom patches and other promotional products for more than 10 years. He believes in the Oxford comma, eradicating the word "utilize," and Santa Claus.