Free Printable Christmas Jar Labels — 18 Black-and-White Labels
You will finish this with eighteen round Christmas labels for the jars of biscuits, fudge and chutney you are giving away — nine that already say something, and nine with blank lines so you can write what is actually inside. They print on the plain paper already in your printer. There is nothing to buy.
Download: Christmas jar labels — free PDF, Letter + A4 — no signup, no email, no tricks.
Almost every free Christmas jar label we could find assumes one of two things: that you are printing in colour, or that you have a pack of sticker sheets in a particular size. Some of them are keyed to specific product codes for adhesive paper. This sheet assumes neither. It is black line art on white, and you cut the circles out and stick them on however you like.
What you need
- The PDF
- Plain printer paper. Thin card, 160gsm or so, cuts a neater circle if you have it.
- Scissors
- A pen, for the nine blank ones
- Something to hold them on — a loop of tape, or a ribbon or elastic round the neck of the jar
What is in the file
Four pages: two label sheets at US Letter, then the same two at A4.
Page one — nine labels that already say something. A tree, a star, a bauble, a candy cane, a stocking, a snowflake, a gingerbread man, a bell and a wreath, each with one of four captions underneath: Baked with love, Homemade, Merry Christmas, or From our kitchen.
Page two — nine labels with two blank writing lines. Same style of artwork — a Santa hat, a present, a mitten, a tree, a snowflake, a gingerbread man, a bauble, a wreath and a candy cane — with two ruled lines under each one, so you can write Ginger biscuits, eat by January or whatever it actually is.
Every label is a circle about 2.3 inches across, which is a shade under 6cm, with a dashed line to cut along. The printed captions are small — the capitals measure about 3mm, roughly the size of the small print on a food packet — so they read comfortably in the hand rather than across a room.
How to print it
- Print the two pages that match your paper. Letter is pages 1 and 2, A4 is pages 3 and 4. Print one pair, not all four.
- Set Actual Size, not Fit to Page. Fit to Page shrinks the sheet by a few percent, and on a circle you are about to hold against a real jar lid, that matters.
- Black and white is fine, and it is all there is. There is no colour anywhere in the file.
- Cut one out and hold it against your jar before you print a stack. Jars vary more than you would think, and one test sheet tells you in ten seconds whether 2.3 inches is right for yours.
The busier of the two sheets is under 2% ink coverage, so a page of nine costs almost nothing to run off. Both sheets are solid black line work with no grey behind it, so they photocopy cleanly too if you are making a lot for a stall or a school fair.
Cutting the circles without it going badly
Turn the paper, not the scissors. Hold the scissors still in your hand, open them a little, and feed the paper round into them with your other hand. A circle cut that way comes out smooth. If you chase the line with the scissor tips instead, you get flat spots.
If you are cutting eighteen of them and your hand starts to complain, cut just outside the dashed line instead of exactly on it. A slightly generous circle looks the same once it is on the jar.
Sticking them on
There is no punch hole on these, because a label goes on the jar rather than dangling off it. Three ways that work:
- A loop of tape on the back, stuck to the lid or to the front of the jar. Easiest, and honestly the one we use.
- Under a ribbon. Tie a ribbon or a strip of fabric round the neck of the jar and slide the top edge of the label under it. It looks the most like a present and takes the longest.
- Under an elastic band, if the ribbon has run out. It does the same job and nobody sees the band once the label is over it.
Two small things to know first. Wipe the jar dry first — paper stuck to a jar straight out of the fridge wrinkles as the condensation soaks in. And if the jar is going to someone who will keep and reuse it, tape beats glue, because a glued paper circle is a job for them later.
If you are giving food away
Write down what is in it and roughly when it is best eaten, even on the ones with a printed caption — there is room around the edge. Baked with love is a nice thing to read, but it does not tell anyone whether there are nuts in it. That is what the nine blank labels are for, so if the jars are going to more than a couple of people, use those ones.
More Christmas printables
The Christmas gift tags to colour sheet goes with these if you are wrapping something alongside the jar, and prints on the same paper. If your jar is going out with the recipe, the printable recipe cards are ruled and plain enough to survive a kitchen. And when the wrapping is done, the large-print Christmas word searches are free too.
Everything we make is on the free printables page, and none of it needs an email address.
