Make free printable Santa gift tags: type each child's name, pick a design and print ten "From: Santa" tags on a page. They fit US Letter or A4, and the names stay in this browser. Then give Santa a paper no one else in the house uses, so his gifts stand apart from yours.
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Type each child's name, pick a design and print. Ten tags fit on a page, each 3.5 by 1.95 inches, on US Letter or A4 paper.
Names stay in this browser, so they're here next time. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is mailed: you print and cut the tags yourself.
A sample sheet for Maya and Leo. Type your names to make it yours.
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To:Maya
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Maya
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Maya
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Maya
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Maya
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Leo
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Leo
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Leo
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Leo
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
To:Leo
From:Santa
Do not open until Christmas!
Give Santa his own handwriting, his own paper and his own ribbon. Kids know your writing, so a tag in your hand is the first clue they'll spot. Print Santa's tags instead, or ask a grandparent or a friend to write them. Keep one roll of paper that only Santa uses, one that no grown-up in the house ever wraps with, and hide it until the night he comes. One parent blogger ties Santa's gifts with red ribbon and the parents' gifts with green, so the two piles never mix.
Then mind the timing. Santa's gifts arrive after the kids are asleep on Christmas Eve, while gifts from family can sit under the tree for days. Sign every tag the same way each year, so "From: Santa" becomes his signature. If you also use printed tags for gifts from yourself, pick a different design for those, so Santa's look like they came from somewhere else.
Keep it short. "To:" with the child's name and "From: Santa" is all a tag needs, and every extra word is one more clue. Use the name your child goes by at home, spelled the way they write it, and put a tag on every gift so no sibling opens the wrong one. Skip the words a parent would write, like "Love," or "xoxo." An extra line can add a little fun, such as "Ho, ho, ho!" or "Made in Santa's workshop" on something homemade.
Not every house wraps Santa's gifts. In a December 2017 reader poll on the Irish news site TheJournal.ie, 5,777 readers said Santa doesn't wrap at their house and 5,518 said he does. An unwrapped gift can still carry a tag: tie one to the handlebar of a new bike or tuck it into the top of a stocking. For which gifts Santa brings, and whether to wrap them, see the Christmas gift rules.
Santa uses paper that never shows up anywhere else in the house. Some families pick a roll printed with Santa and his sleigh. Others go plain: brown kraft paper tied with red-and-white baker's twine, with a printed tag on top. Whichever you choose, buy it on your own, keep it out of sight and bring it out only on Christmas Eve. If the same roll wraps a birthday gift in March, someone will remember it.
Kraft paper costs little and takes a printed tag well. It is also plain paper, so it can usually go in the recycling if it has no foil or glitter, though local rules differ. For neat corners, our guide on how to wrap presents shows every fold in drawings and works out how much paper each box needs, so you can buy one roll for Santa's whole pile. Still deciding what goes inside the paper? Start with our Christmas gift ideas.
Print the sheet at 100%, which some print windows call Actual size, so each tag comes out 3.5 by 1.95 inches (89 by 50 mm). Ten tags fit on one page of US Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) or A4 (210 by 297 mm). Pick your paper in the maker above and the sheet lines up either way. Plain printer paper works, but card stock is stiffer and won't tear when a child tugs the ribbon. On thin paper, glue the sheet to the back of a cereal box before you cut.
Cut along the dashed lines with scissors or a paper trimmer. Punch the circle at the narrow end with a single-hole punch, thread twine or ribbon through it and tie it around the gift, or tape the tag flat on top. Save the spare blank tags for gifts you add later. Put the tags on last, once the kids are asleep.
Yes. Make and print as many sheets as you like. There's nothing to sign up for, and the tags come out of your own printer.
Yes. Pick Santa, Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Santa and Mrs. Claus, or the elves in the Signed menu. Every tag on the sheet changes at once.
Yes, in shades of gray. Candy stripe and North Pole post stay light. Starry night prints as a dark tag and uses the most ink.
Yes. Use full-page sticker sheets in Letter or A4, print at 100%, cut on the dashed lines and stick each tag straight onto the paper.
Every family decides. Some keep Santa to one big gift and the stocking. The planner on Christmas gift rules lets you tick which gifts Santa brings.
Yes. Make a letter from Santa with your child's name and leave it beside the tree on Christmas Eve.
Ask the kids to fill in a Christmas wish list. For the grown-ups on your list, send a link from Santa's interview: they tell Santa their wishes on a short video call, and the wishes come back to you with store prices. Or skip the wrapping and give gift minutes for a call with Santa.
They can tell him on a live video call with Santa, along with what they're wishing for next. Read how calling Santa works first.
No. The names are saved in this browser only, so they're still there next time you print. Tap Clear names to delete them.
Live videoLet the kids tell Santa about their year and what's on their list, live on a video call you start. Their wishes come back to you with store prices, lowest first. $1 a minute.
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