Thanksgiving Name Tags: 24 Autumn Designs with Coloring Versions, plus 12 Favor Tags and 8 I’m Thankful For Tags

Set one at each plate: the 24 Thanksgiving name tags in this download carry a single line under the word Name, for a guest’s name at their seat. They share a cream-to-peach ground with a fine brown frame, and the pictures run through the season in four groups of six.

The 24 name tags

• Leaves (01–06): oak leaves with an acorn, red maple leaves, a ginkgo leaf with a berry, a leaf with maple seeds, a single turning leaf, and a leaf beside two pine cones
• Harvest (07–12): an orange pumpkin, a white pumpkin with orange stripes, a yellow pumpkin topped with roses, a gourd with a maple leaf, a pie, and a basket of pumpkins tied with a ribbon
• Turkeys (13–18): six different birds, from a round little turkey facing forward to one in profile beside red berries
• Woodland (19–24): a pair of acorns, an oak sprig, a basket of acorns, a squirrel holding a nut, an acorn with a pine cone, and mushrooms

The shapes are part of the look. Some tags are cut as a maple leaf, a pumpkin with a stem, a scallop like a turkey’s tail feathers, or a round-bellied shape with a small knob on top. These wide shapes, and the ovals and trapezoids, are 3 x 2 inches. Circles and squares are 2.25 inches, and the cut-corner tags 2 x 2.25 inches.

Every name tag also comes as a line-art version with the same picture and Name line, printed on PDF pages 4 to 6. Kids at the table can color their own place tag while dinner finishes, or color the whole set ahead of time.

Favor, thankful and blank tags

The twelve favor tags carry a short line and To and From spaces for leftovers and take-home treats: A little more to love, Save room for seconds, Baked with thanks, Sweet autumn wishes, Made to share, A slice of happiness, Take home a little joy, Gather and enjoy, A treat for later, Warm wishes inside, Thankful for you and A sweet thank-you. Most of them stand taller than they are wide: the cut-corner favors are 2 x 3 inches, the ovals and trapezoids 2.25 x 2.75, and the circles and squares 2.25 inches.

The eight thankful tags read “I’m thankful for” above two empty lines, using the same leaf, pumpkin, turkey and acorn pictures as the name tags. Guests can fill one in and hang it on a branch or leave it at their plate. The eight blanks have only a small picture near the top and nothing to fill in, so you can write a menu item, a dish label or a note.

Printing

Use the US Letter PDF on Letter paper and the A4 PDF on A4, with scaling off. Name tags, thankful tags and blanks fit eight to a sheet; favor tags fit six. Each sheet has a small label at the top and a page number at the bottom, both outside the tags. Cut along the tag outlines and punch where the small circle sits. The SVG and DXF files are the outer outlines only, sized in inches and named to match each tag, for cutting the shapes from card stock on a cutting machine.

Questions

Are these folded place cards?

No. Every piece is a single flat tag. Lay a name tag on the plate or napkin, prop it against a glass, or tie it on with twine through the hole marked near the top.

Which tags come in a coloring version?

Only the 24 name tags. The favor tags, the thankful tags and the blanks are color only.

Can I type the guests' names?

START-HERE.txt and the print guide page give a Canva template link for US Letter and one for A4. Sign in to your own Canva account, open the link, create your copy, type in the names and export as PDF Print. Reduce the font size for long names.