Christmas gift tags

Download the PDF in US Letter or A4 and print it at 100%, or "Actual size", not "Fit to page", so the tags come out the right size. The classic tags are about 1.75 by 3.7 inches (4.5 by 9.3 cm) and the round ones 1.75 inches (4.4 cm) across. Try one page on plain paper first, then load the card. For tags with names, type them into the maker on this page and press Print.

Thin card, often sold as cardstock, around 65 lb cover in the US or 160 to 200 gsm everywhere else. It's stiff enough to hang from a ribbon without curling, and many home printers feed it best from the back tray. Plain printer paper works too. Glue it onto an empty cereal box before you cut, and nobody will ever know.

Punch the hole (the little ring on each tag shows where) and tie the tag on with ribbon, string or baker's twine, under the bow or around the ribbon. A folded tag can also sit over the ribbon like a tiny tent, with a bit of tape inside. No hole punch? A strip of clear tape on the back holds it just as well.

Yes. Print the page on full sheet sticker paper (sold as label paper too), cut the tags out and stick them straight onto the wrapping, no hole needed. The small round ones make the best stickers. Check first that your printer takes sticker sheets.

Let the printer write the whole tag. Choose From Santa in the maker above and type the names, and they print beside his signature. Wrapping his presents in a paper of their own helps too. If Santa leaves a letter as well, ours is signed the same way.

No. The whole sheet is put together on your own device, so the names never travel. Only the first one is kept there, for our other Christmas makers, until you clear it. The rest are gone when you close the page. All the page counts is the printing itself (how many names, which kind of tag), never a word on the tags.