Gift Tag Maker

How to make and print a sheet of gift tags

1. Type who the presents are for, one name per line. Each line becomes one tag. Pasting a list from your notes or a spreadsheet column works too.
2. Set the sender once in From. If a few tags come from someone else, write those lines as Leo | Grandpa. Add a third part for a message on just that tag: Ella | Mum and Dad | Happy 7th birthday!
3. Pick a design, a shape and a size. The line under the preview tells you how many tags fit on one sheet and how many pages your list needs, before you download anything.
4. Download the PDF and print it at 100% (“Actual size”). Cut along the thin grey outline, punch the dashed circle, and thread ribbon, twine or curling ribbon through it.

12 days of Christmas gift tags

A 12 days of Christmas run is one small present a day for twelve days, each opened on its own day. The tags have to say which present is for which day, so the set prints twelve tags for one person, numbered Day 1 to Day 12, each with the name and a line for that day. Make the set.

1. Choose “12 days of Christmas” at the top of the page and type who it is for. The From box is optional; leave it empty on the From Santa design and every tag is signed by Santa.
2. Pick the line on each tag. The carol prints the song's gifts, from “A partridge in a pear tree” on day 1 to “Twelve drummers drumming” on day 12. Countdown runs from “12 days to go” to “Tomorrow is Christmas!”. For a teacher gives twelve short thank-you lines. My own lines opens twelve boxes, one per day, filled with the carol to start; type what each present is, a clue to it, or a joke.
3. Pick a design and size. Every design works, the black & white and colour-in ones too. Small (24 per A4 sheet, 21 on Letter), Medium (18) and round Small or Medium tags (20 or 12) put all twelve on one sheet. Large tags fit 8 per sheet and round Large tags 6, so those sets take two sheets; the gift card holder takes three or four.
4. Download the PDF, print at 100%, cut, and tape or tie each tag to its present. Number the parcels as you wrap them, so Day 7 does not get opened on day 2.

When do the 12 days of Christmas start?

It depends which twelve days you mean, and both are in use. In the church calendar the Twelve Days of Christmas begin on Christmas Day, 25 December, and end on 5 January, the eve of Epiphany (some traditions count from 26 December to 6 January). The gift run most families and offices do now is the twelve days before Christmas: start on 13 December and the twelfth present is opened on Christmas Eve, or start on 14 December to finish on Christmas Day. The Countdown wording only fits the before-Christmas run, as its day 1 is “12 days to go”; the carol and your own lines fit either. For a teacher, count school days instead: if the last day of term is Friday 18 December 2026, twelve school days start on Thursday 3 December.

What should I give on each day?

Small and consumable works best, with a slightly bigger present on day 12. Twelve gifts at $3 to $5 each comes to $36 to $60, so set the total first. Following the carol is an easy theme: a pear or a pear-scented candle on day 1, two of anything on day 2 (socks, mugs, hot-chocolate sachets), three chocolate eggs for the French hens, gold-wrapped chocolate coins for the five gold rings, and something noisy or a tin of biscuits for the drummers on day 12. For a teacher, things that get used up are kinder than another mug: good coffee or tea, hand cream, nice pens, sticky notes, a plant, a book for the class library, and on day 12 a card the child wrote. Food allergies are common among school staff, so a non-food day or two is a safe choice.

Which version of the carol do the tags use?

The words most people sing today: four calling birds, five gold rings, and the last four days as ladies dancing, lords a-leaping, pipers piping and drummers drumming. That order comes from Frederic Austin's 1909 arrangement. The oldest printed version, in the children's book Mirth without Mischief (London, about 1780), has “four colly birds” (blackbirds) and orders the last four nine drummers, ten pipers, eleven ladies and twelve lords. If your family sings it differently, choose My own lines and change those days.

Party favour and thank-you tags

Favour tags are the opposite of a gift list: forty party bags, one message. Choose Favours & thank you at the top, type the line once (or pick a ready one) and every tag on the sheet says it, with an optional name line such as “Love, Mia” and a date. Make favour tags.

1. Pick a design for the occasion. Balloons and Gold sparkle for a child's or a grown-up's birthday, Little rattle and Soft dots for a baby shower, Two rings and Eucalyptus for a wedding or bridal shower, Olive branch for a baptism or christening (no cross, so it suits any family), and Hearts line in black and white for anything else.
2. Count your bags, then the sheets. One sheet holds 24 small, 18 medium or 8 large tags (21 small on Letter), or 20, 12 or 6 round ones. Thirty guests with medium tags is two printed copies of the sheet.
3. Print, cut and tie. Download the PDF, print it at 100% and as many copies as you need. The PNG and the editable Word file carry the same drawings.

What do you write on a favour tag?

Three things at most: thanks, the occasion and who it is from. “Thanks for coming to Mia's 5th!” does all three in six words, and short lines print larger, so they can be read across a table. Put the host's name on the name line (“Love, Mia” or “The Okafor family”) and the date if the favour is a keepsake, such as a candle or a jar of jam from a wedding. A pun works when it matches the treat: “Ready to pop!” on popcorn, “Sweet as can bee” on honey, “From our day to your home” on a plant. If the bag holds food, a tag is also a good place for the one allergy fact guests need, for example “nut-free”; put it on the name line so it stands apart.

Baby shower favour tag wording

Keep it about the guests, not the bump: “Thank you for showering us with love” and “Thanks for helping us welcome baby” are the two lines hosts use most, and “Oh baby, thanks for coming!” is a lighter one. If the name is not announced yet, sign the name line “The parents-to-be” or with the parents' names (“Love, Sam & Jo”) instead of the baby's. Puns follow the favour: “Ready to pop!” for popcorn or bubbles, “Sweet as can bee” for honey, “A little treat from a little one on the way” for sweets. For a gender-neutral shower the Little rattle and Soft dots designs avoid pink-or-blue.

What size are favour tags?

Shop-bought favour tags are commonly 2 in (50 mm) circles or rectangles of about 2 × 1¼ in (50 × 30 mm), sized for a small cellophane bag or a jar lid. Here, Small is that rectangle, and the round tags are 44 mm (1¾ in), 54 mm (about 2⅛ in, a little over the usual 2 in) and 72 mm across. Use Large (90 × 54 mm, about 3½ × 2⅛ in) for a long message or a bottle of wine. On round tags the words stay at least 3 mm inside the cut line, so a circle cut a little off with scissors or a punch does not clip a letter.

Halloween treat-bag tags for a class

Seven Halloween designs, all drawn for this page: a smiling pumpkin, a friendly ghost, a black cat, bats across a full moon, candy corn, a spider web, and Pumpkin line, the same pumpkin in thin black line on white paper for a printer that is low on colour ink. Make Halloween tags.

1. Paste the class list into To, one child per line, and your name into From. Each line becomes one tag, so 24 names give 24 tags, each with its own name.
2. Pick a design and a line. The Halloween wording menu has lines from a teacher to students, from a child to classmates, and plain treat-bag lines such as “Boo! You've been treated”. The line goes into Message, where you can change it.
3. Pick a size for the bag. Small tags (50 × 30 mm, about 2 × 1¼ in) fit 24 to an A4 sheet and 21 to Letter; Medium (62 × 38 mm, about 2½ × 1½ in) fit 18; round tags 20 or 12. A class of 25 on Medium tags is two sheets.
4. Print, cut and attach. Print at 100%, cut along the grey outline and punch the dashed circle. On a paper or cellophane treat bag, fold the top over twice and staple the tag through the fold, or tie it on with ribbon through the hole. These are tags: the tool does not print a fold-over bag topper.

What do you write on a Halloween tag for students?

The child's name, one short line and who it is from. The name is what matters to a six-year-old, so keep the line short and it prints larger: “Have a spook-tacular Halloween!” (31 characters) still prints on one or two lines of a Medium tag, while a 60-character sentence drops to small type. Puns land best when they match the treat: “You make our class a treat” on a bag of goodies, “Have a fang-tastic Halloween!” on vampire-teeth erasers. Sign as the class knows you, “from Ms Rivera” or “from Mr Okafor and Mrs Lee”. If two children share a first name, add the initial of their last name (Mia R., Mia T.) so the right bag goes to the right desk. A child giving to classmates can use “Happy Halloween, friend!” and sign with their own name, with a parent's help typing the class list.

Non-candy Halloween treats a teacher can tag

Many schools limit sweets, and a food-free bag also suits children with food allergies. Small things children actually use work best: a pencil with a Halloween pattern, a sheet of stickers, a novelty eraser shaped like a pumpkin or a ghost, a bookmark, a glow stick or glow bracelet for trick-or-treating after dark, a mini tub of play dough, a bubble wand, a temporary tattoo, or a small notepad. Two or three of these in a 6½ in sandwich bag or a small paper bag, with the tag stapled through the folded top, make a full bag. Put the tag on the outside where the name can be read from across the room, so the bags can be handed out quickly at the end of the day.

Hanukkah gift tags, and a set for the eight nights

Six Hanukkah designs, all drawn for this page: a hanukkiah (the Hanukkah menorah) with its candles lit, a blue dreidel, a pile of chocolate gelt coins, Stars of David in blue and silver, a jam-filled sufganiyah dusted with sugar, and Hanukkiah line, the same hanukkiah in thin black line on white paper for a printer with only black ink. Make Hanukkah tags.

1. Type the names into To, one per line, and your name into From. Each line becomes one tag.
2. Pick a design and a greeting. The Hanukkah wording menu has Happy Hanukkah, Happy Chanukah and Chag Sameach, plus a few longer lines; the greeting goes into Message, where you can type anything instead.
3. For one present a night, tick Eight nights. Every name then gets eight tags headed Night 1 to Night 8, kept together on the sheet. Three children make 24 tags: exactly one A4 sheet of Small tags (50 × 30 mm), or two sheets of Medium ones.
4. Download and print. The PDF, the 300 dpi PNG and the editable Word file all carry the drawings. Print at 100%, cut along the grey outline and punch the dashed circle.

How the drawings get the details right

A Hanukkah menorah has nine candle places: eight in a row, one for each night, and the shamash, the helper candle used to light the others, set higher in the middle. The seven-branched menorah of the Temple is a different object, and many clip-art tags mix the two up; this page's hanukkiah is built from its nine candle positions and checked by a test that fails on seven. The dreidel's four sides carry the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, hei and shin, for nes gadol haya sham, “a great miracle happened there”; dreidels made in Israel have pe for po, “here”, in place of shin. The drawing shows shin on the front and nun on the side, drawn as shapes, because the lettering fonts on this page have no Hebrew characters. For the same reason the greetings are in English letters: write Hebrew by hand on the printed tag if you want it.

Hanukkah, Chanukah or Chag Sameach?

All are right. Hanukkah and Chanukah are two ways of writing the same Hebrew word in English letters (both are common; the “Ch” stands for a throaty h, not the ch of “church”). Chag Sameach means “happy holiday” in Hebrew and is said at many Jewish festivals, so it suits a tag for a friend who keeps more than one. Pick the spelling your family uses; the page never changes a line you typed.

When is Hanukkah in 2026, and how many presents is eight nights?

Hanukkah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday 4 December and ends at nightfall on Saturday 12 December; the first candle is lit on the evening of the 4th. Because the Jewish calendar is lunar, the dates move each year, so check before you print a dated set. Families that give a present each night often keep them small, with gelt, socks, a book or a game, and save a bigger one for a single night. If you also mark the Hanukkah candles: one per night plus the shamash comes to 44 candles over the eight nights, which is why candle boxes hold 44.

Questions

Are these printable gift tags really free?

Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no paid version. The PDF is made in your own browser, so the tool costs nothing to run however many sheets you print.

How is this different from a free gift tag template?

An editable template gives you one tag to change at a time, and you copy it across the page by hand. Here you type the whole list once and every tag on the sheet gets its own name, sender and message. Thirty cousins is still one paste.

How many tags fit on a page, A4 or US Letter?

Small tags are 50 × 30 mm (about 2 × 1.2 in): 24 fit on A4 and 21 on US Letter, because Letter is 18 mm shorter. Medium tags (62 × 38 mm) give 18 on either paper, and large tags (90 × 54 mm) give 8. Round tags are 44, 54 or 72 mm across, at 20, 12 or 6 per page. Every tag sits at least 8 mm inside the paper edge, beyond the 3 to 5 mm that most home printers cannot reach. The paper starts on Letter if your browser is set to US or Canadian English, and on A4 everywhere else; switch it with the Paper buttons.

Can I print gift tags in black and white, or give children tags to colour in?

Yes. The four Black & white designs (Holly line, Snowflake line, Tree line, Classic line) are thin black line art on white paper with no printed background. The colour designs ink the whole face of every tag; these ink well under a tenth of it, and the names print in black. Choose “Black and white” or “Grayscale” in your print dialog as well: some colour printers otherwise mix grey from every cartridge. The five To colour in designs (bauble, tree, gingerbread person, present, snowman) put one big outlined drawing beside each name, with bold lines and empty shapes. On a large tag the drawing is 23 to 28 mm tall; on a small one about 15 mm, which is fiddly for a crayon, so pick Large for young children. Felt-tips bleed less on card than on plain paper.

Which paper or cardstock should I use?

Plain 80 g/m² (20 lb) printer paper works, but tags printed on it crease in a bag. Matte cardstock of 160 to 250 g/m² (about 60 to 90 lb cover) feels like a shop tag and still goes through most home inkjet and laser printers; check your printer's maximum, often printed inside the paper tray. Feed card one sheet at a time if it jams. Glossy photo paper makes the dark designs look rich, but ballpoint does not write well on it, so use plain card if you want to add notes by hand.

How do I cut them neatly?

For rectangles, a paper trimmer or a craft knife against a metal ruler is fastest: cut each row free first, then each tag. Use scissors for the round and classic notched tags. The gaps between tags are 4 mm, so you can cut on the line without nicking the next tag. The dashed circle is 6 mm across, the size of a standard single-hole punch.

How do I make a tag “From Santa”?

Choose the From Santa design. It signs every tag “from Santa” in a handwritten script on Christmas red, whatever is in the From box. Print the presents from you on a second sheet in another design. Children compare handwriting, so a printed tag keeps Santa's writing different from yours. A line written Noah | the Elves still uses its own sender.

What should I write on a teacher gift tag?

One short, specific line beats a long one: the message shares the tag with the name, and a long one shrinks to small print. “Thank you for a wonderful year” or “Merry Christmas to the best teacher” work for any class; “Thanks for helping me grow” suits a younger child and a plant or seeds. Sign it with the child's first name and class, such as from Ella, Year 2, since a teacher with 30 pupils gets several gifts from an “Ella” or a “Noah”. For a teaching assistant, a bus driver or a coach, a line with their own message is a nice touch: Mr Okafor | Ella | Thank you for all the reading help. If the gift is a gift card, choose Gift card holder: cut the four short corner slits with a craft knife and tuck the card's corners in, so it cannot slip out of the envelope unseen. Holders are wider than the other tags (141 to 161 × 64 mm, or a 112 to 124 mm disc), so 4 fit on A4 and 3 on US Letter, or 2 round ones.

How do I keep a Secret Santa tag anonymous?

Choose one of the two Secret Santa designs. Every tag is signed “Your Secret Santa” in a script face and the From box is ignored, so your own name cannot slip onto a tag by habit. Print the whole group's tags on one sheet (type every name in the list, one per line) and the person who prints them has no clue who buys for whom; the tags carry only the recipient's name. Handwriting gives people away more often than anything else, which is why a printed tag helps, and wrap the present away from your desk. To draw the names in the first place, without anyone, organiser included, seeing the pairings, use the Secret Santa generator.

Can I put a photo on the gift tags?

Yes. Under Photo on the tags, choose Same photo on every tag (a family picture, say) or A photo for each name, then pick a picture for each name in your list, so the tag “To Mia” shows Mia and a child who cannot read yet still finds their present. Each tag gets a photo window: a rounded square, or a circle on round tags, and the name and From line move beside it instead of under it. The photo starts centred and cropped to fill the window; drag it and zoom to frame a face. A photo needs room, so on the small tags (50 × 30 mm) the window is only 11 to 17 mm across, depending on the design: enough for one face, too small for a group photo. The large tags give 16 to 32 mm. The photo is opened by this page on your device and is never uploaded; the draft this page keeps in your browser holds only the text, not the pictures. The black & white designs print the photo in greyscale to save colour ink. The colour-in designs and the gift card holder have no photo, because the drawing and the card slot need that space. The PDF and PNG draw the window at 300 dpi, so a 32 mm window uses about 380 pixels of your photo: a phone picture stays sharp even zoomed in 2×.

Can I edit a tag after making the sheet?

Yes: change its line in the list and the preview redraws at once, then download again. To fix one tag, edit only that line. To leave space for handwriting, keep Fill the rest of the last page with blank tags ticked and the empty places on the last page print as “To ___ From ___” tags.

Can I edit the tags in Word?

Yes. Press Download Word (.docx) and you get the same tags as an editable Word table, one sheet per table: each cell is exactly one tag's size (62 × 38 mm for Medium, 50 × 30 mm for Small, 90 × 54 mm for Large, a 44 to 72 mm square for round tags), with grey cell borders as the cut lines and a 6 mm margin round the page, on A4 or US Letter as you chose. It opens in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, Google Docs and Apple Pages. Every word is editable: the “To” line, the name, the sender, the message and, for a 12 days set, the Day 1 to Day 12 headings, which stay in order. The design comes with it: each tag's drawing is a picture placed behind its words, painted by the same code as the PDF (the background, the holly, snowflakes, trees or colour-in outlines, the frame, the punch-hole circle, the gift card slot and your photo on a photo tag), and the tag's rounded, notched or round outline is drawn inside its cell for you to cut along. The words on top are ordinary Word text in the design's colours, set in Georgia (italic where the design uses a handwritten face), because every copy of Word has it. Two things still differ from the PDF: the drawing is a picture at 200 dpi, so to change the design or the photo you change it here and download again (or use Word's Change Picture); and Georgia can wrap a long name where the PDF's fitted lettering did not. In Word neighbouring tags share one cut line instead of a 4 mm gap, so a sheet often holds a few more (27 small tags on A4 instead of 24). If a size ever fits fewer tags in Word than in the PDF, the file uses more sheets, never smaller tags. Empty places on the last sheet are “To ___ From ___” blanks if Fill the rest of the last page is ticked, otherwise empty cells you can type into. Print at 100% (“Actual size”), not “Fit to page”, so the tags keep their size. A very long name or message you type in Word makes its row taller and can push the last row onto a new page; shorten it or make it smaller.

Are there free printable Hanukkah gift tags as a PDF?

Yes. Pick one of the six Hanukkah designs, type the names and press Download PDF: you get an A4 or US Letter PDF with every tag filled in, free, with no sign-up and no watermark. Leave the list empty for a sheet of blank Hanukkah tags to write on by hand. The PNG and the Word file carry the same drawings.

Can I print Hanukkah gift labels on sticker paper?

Yes, as the same sheet on full-page label paper. Load an A4 or Letter sheet of plain sticker paper (one label covering the whole page), print the PDF at 100% and cut along the grey outlines; each tag becomes a sticker for a wrapped box or a bag of gelt. The layout is not matched to pre-cut label sheets such as Avery templates, so on those the tags will not line up with the cuts. Skip the punch hole on a label; it is only a printed circle.

What happens to a very long name?

It shrinks to fit, and wraps onto up to four lines if that keeps it larger. Nothing is ever cut off: even a 40-letter name prints whole inside a small tag, at a size you can still read. Letters outside Western and Central European alphabets, such as Greek, Cyrillic or Chinese, use your device's own font on the tag.