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Home / Food Gardening / Food Preservation / Free Canning Labels To Print For Jars

Free Canning Labels To Print For Jars

By Amy Andrychowicz | 8 Comments

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I’m on a mission to get my pantry organized, and pretty things up with bright and colorful custom canning labels. So, I decided to try my hand at making my own printable canning labels, and I wanted to share them with you too!

printable canning labels: free downloadable labels for your canning jars

Once the busy food canning season is over, my pantry is filled with jars and jars of yummy home grown food… but it’s not very pretty. I’ve always just written on my canning jar lids with a permanent marker, but that’s ugly and boring.

Plus, it doesn’t do justice to all the time and hard work I put into growing and canning all of that lovely food! I want to add a personalized touch to my jars.

So, I created these super cute canning labels.

Now you can download them for free, and print them off right at home and use them to give your canning jars that special personal touch.

Free printable canning jar labels

Free printable canning jar labels

Printable Canning Labels

To print your canning jar labels, you can either use printable label templates (option 1 below), or you can use paper (option 2 below).

The labels look best when you use a color printer, but you can also print them in black and white if you don’t have a color printer.

Option 1: Use printable label templates to print the canning labels

Supplies Needed:

  • Printable round label templates (2″ size labels for regular canning jar lids, and the 2.5″ size for wide mouth)
  • Pen, sharpie or colorful markers
Custom canning labels and templates

Custom canning labels and templates

Printing Instructions:

Follow the instructions that come with the labels to make sure you have your printer settings correct before printing your labels.

I recommend printing a test copy on regular paper before using the canning label templates to make sure everything is lining up correctly on your printer.

Once you have your labels printed, you can write on them and then simply peel and stick them onto the canning jar lids.

Regular mouth round canning labels

Regular mouth round canning labels

Option 2: Use paper to print the canning jar labels

Supplies Needed:

  • Card stock paper
  • Scissors or large hole punch (2″ hole punch for regular jar lids, 2.5″ hole punch for wide mouth lids)
  • Glue stick
  • Pen, sharpie or colorful markers
Wide mouth round canning labels

Wide mouth round canning labels

Instructions: 

If you’d rather print the canning labels on paper and cut them out manually, I recommend using a thick card stock paper rather than regular printer paper (card stock paper will hold up better and look much nicer).

Once they’re printed you can cut your labels out with scissors, or if you’re not so great with the scissors, use a large crafting hole punch. (2″ hole punch for regular jar lids, 2.5″ hole punch for wide mouth lids)

The hole punch will make the job much faster and more precise than simply using scissors.

Cut out printed canning labels

Cut out printed canning labels

You can write on your labels before or after cutting them out, whichever is easiest for you.

Then you’re ready, use a glue stick to completely cover the back of each label with glue, and then press them onto the canning jar lids.

Write on the canning labels

Write on the canning labels

You can use anything you want to write on your labels. But if you want to get all matchy-matchy, you can use color coordinated markers. Cute!

Use colorful markers on canning labels

Use colorful markers on canning labels

These free printable canning jar labels are great for adding bright pops of color to your pantry, and make your jars look even prettier.

But you can use them for anything you want! They would work great for storing dry food in canning jars too, or using canning jars to organize your trinkets.

They’re also perfect to add a cute, personal touch to your jars if you’re going to be giving your canned food away as gifts too!

Add bright pops of color to your canning jars with these free printable canning labels! Perfect for adding a cute, personal touch to your home canned food!

Pretty printable canning labels

Download Your Free Printable Canning Jar Labels

These printable canning labels come in two sizes, perfect for either regular or wide mouth canning jar lids.

  • Regular mouth canning jar labels
  • Wide mouth canning jar labels

I hope you’ll enjoy these free printable canning labels! If these end up being something you love, then I will definitely be making more designs in the future, so please be sure to let me know!

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Leave a comment below and let me know how you like these printable canning labels.

Add bright pops of color to your canning jars with these free printable canning labels! Perfect for adding a cute, personal touch to your home canned food!

About Amy Andrychowicz

I live and garden in Minneapolis, MN (zone 4b). My green thumb comes from my parents, and I've been gardening most of my life. I’m a passionate gardener who loves growing everything from vegetables, herbs, and flowers to succulents, tropicals, and houseplants - you name, I've grown it! Read More...

Comments

  1. Kathy says

    February 21, 2020 at 11:39 am

    When will the wide mouth labels be available? I would love to have them also. Thank you for these. Will make my jar labeling easier and cuter. The grandkids will like helping me even more.

    Reply
    • Amy Andrychowicz says

      March 12, 2020 at 10:59 am

      Yay, I’m so glad to hear that you love my printable canning labels!! I have added the wide mouth ones, so you can download them now. Here’s the link… Wide mouth canning labels

      Reply
  2. ROSE says

    November 26, 2019 at 11:59 pm

    THESE ARE JUST TOO CUTE! i CHOSE TO PRINT ON CARD PAPER AND CUT OUT.
    i USED COLOR ORANGES, GREEN, AND YELLOW CARD PAPER AND THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL. ORANGE FOR MY PEACH PRESERVES, GREEN FOR DILL PICKLES, YELLOW FOR PEAR PRESERVES AND SO ON FOR MY BOOTH AT A BIZARRE SALE.
    NEED THOSE LABELS FOR QUARTS NOW.

    THANKS BUNCHES!

    Reply
    • Amy Andrychowicz says

      December 2, 2019 at 10:07 am

      Wonderful, so glad you love the canning labels! 🙂 Your idea to print them on colorful paper so you can coordinate them with what is in the jars is great, and sounds so cute!

      Reply
  3. Erin says

    May 8, 2018 at 11:23 am

    Super cute…cant wait for the wide mouth labels! 🙂
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Amy Andrychowicz says

      May 22, 2018 at 10:57 am

      Thanks! Glad you like the printable canning labels. 🙂

      Reply
  4. Emily says

    December 1, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    I love this idea for making the labels look pretty. Mine are all just written on the lids. Thanks for sharing at the Monday Funday Party. – Emily

    Reply
    • Amy Andrychowicz says

      December 2, 2016 at 10:19 am

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply

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