CraftdotYou've Been Jingled: Free Printable Kit for Doorstep or Desk, Letter and A4
A free You've Been Jingled kit: a doorstep sign with the steps on it, a bell for the window, four bag toppers and a desk version. Letter and A4, no signup.
No email or signup. Printing instructions are below.
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You will finish this with the paper side of jingling a neighbour done: a topper for the bag of treats, the sign that tells them what just landed on their step, and a bell for their window so the rest of the street can see they have had their turn. There is a second pair of signs worded for a desk, for anyone whose street is an office or a classroom.
Download: You've Been Jingled printable kit, free PDF, Letter + A4. No signup, no email.
It is one file. Pages 1 to 5 are US Letter, pages 6 to 10 are the same five pages on A4, and you print whichever set matches the paper in your printer. Of the six kits on the first page of search results that we opened on 4 September 2026, none names a paper size. This one is both, and the print steps below give the page numbers for each.
The game, for anyone new to it
A bag of treats turns up on your doorstep with a sign, and whoever left it has gone before you get to the door. You keep the treats. You tape the bell page in a front window so the street can see your house has had its turn, then you make up two bags and leave them at two doors with no bell showing yet.
It runs itself from there. Every house that gets jingled sends out two more bags, and it winds down on its own once most of the windows on the street have a bell in them and there is nobody left to jingle.
Why the steps are printed on the sign
The person who matters most is the one who finds the bag, and they have never seen this page. They are standing on their own step in the dark holding a sheet of paper, so the sheet has to do the explaining. The five steps are printed under the big words, large enough to read by porch light.
Step 4 is the one that keeps it going. It says to print two more signs at craftdot.com/free, and that address is on the sign in their hand and in the footer of every page, so the copies they print come from the same file and look the same as the one they were given. Nobody has to look anything up while standing on a doorstep.
What is in the file
Ten pages. Pages 1 to 5 are US Letter and pages 6 to 10 are the same five on A4, so you print the set that matches your paper and ignore the other. Everything is black line art on white, and the busiest page is about 4% ink coverage, so a few extra signs cost almost nothing to run off.
- Page 1, the doorstep sign. A line-drawn present, "A treat landed on your doorstep. You've been Jingled!", and the five numbered steps underneath: keep the treats, tape the bell page in your window, make up two treat bags of your own, print two more signs at craftdot.com/free, leave them at two doors with no bell showing.
- Page 2, the window sign. A big bell over "We've been Jingled!" in letters you can read from the road, and nothing else inside the border.
- Page 3, four bag toppers. Two for the bags you are giving and two spare. Each is 75 mm wide, about 3 inches, and carries the line Fits a 75 mm (3 in) bag so you can check it against your bags before cutting. The pictures are a bell, a present, a candy cane and a stocking, with "You've been Jingled", "A jingle for you", "From a neighbour" and "Your turn next" under them.
- Page 4, the desk sign. The same present, "A treat landed on your desk. You've been Jingled!", and five steps written for a workplace: keep the treats, tape the desk sign up, make two bags, print two more signs at craftdot.com/free, leave them on two desks with no sign showing.
- Page 5, the desk marker. The bell again, over "This desk has been Jingled!" It does at a desk what the window sign does at home.
Plain paper does for all of it. If you have thin card, use it for the window bell, which is going to spend a while taped to cold glass.
What you need
- The PDF
- Plain printer paper. Thin card for the window bell if there is some in the house; it is not worth a trip to buy.
- Scissors, for the toppers. The four signs need no cutting.
- A stapler, or tape folded inside where it will not show
- Two bags for the treats. The toppers are sized for a 75 mm (3 in) bag, which is the small cellophane sweet bag or a little paper party bag.
- The treats
- Sticky tape for the window
How to print it
- Print only the pages that match your paper. Letter is pages 1 to 5, A4 is pages 6 to 10. For a doorstep you want the sign, the bell and the toppers, which is pages 1 to 3 on Letter or 6 to 8 on A4. For a desk, print the toppers and the two desk signs: pages 3 to 5 on Letter or 8 to 10 on A4.
- Set Actual Size, not Fit to Page. Fit to Page takes a few percent off everything, and a topper that has lost a few percent stops short of the edges of the bag it says it fits.
- Black and white is all there is in the file, so nothing is lost on a black-and-white printer.
- Cut one topper out and hold it against a bag before you print more. Bags sold as 3 inch are not all the same width.
Folding the toppers
Cut round the dashed outline of each topper, fold it across the middle at the small fold mark, and slip the fold over the top of the filled bag. The picture on the top half is printed upside down on purpose, so once it is folded the back of the topper is the right way up too. Two staples at the small marks near the bottom edge, through both layers, hold it on.
Each half is 55 mm deep, so the folded topper covers the top 55 mm of the bag on both sides. Flatten the top of the filled bag and press a crease into it before the topper goes on, and the two folds will sit together.
Leaving the bag
Go after dark, knock or ring, and be off the step before the door opens. Nobody needs to hide behind a car; walking away down the path is enough. If you would rather not ring at all, leave the bag somewhere it will not be trodden on and send a text that says look outside.
A doorstep in December is often wet, and a paper bag on a wet step goes soft in ten minutes. Hang the bag by its handles on the door handle, tuck it inside the porch, or use a clear cellophane bag for the treats, which does not mind the damp. Fold the sign once and tuck it into the top of the bag, so it is the first thing they see.
The bell in the window
The bell page is easy to skip, and it is what keeps the game fair. It tells everyone walking past that your house has had its turn, so one friendly family does not end up with three bags in a week while the house at the end gets none.
Stick it to the inside of a front window with the bell facing the road, somewhere around eye height, and leave it up until the street goes quiet.
The desk version
Pages 4 and 5 are the same two signs worded for a desk, so the game works in an office or a classroom. The sign says a treat landed on your desk, the steps say to tape the desk sign up and leave two bags on two desks with no sign showing, and page 5 is the bell page for a desk: "This desk has been Jingled!"
Indoors, the only thing to get right is that the bag reaches the right person. Leave it on their chair or their keyboard rather than on a shared table, or whoever is first in tomorrow eats it. In a classroom, the teacher is the one to run it, and the desk sign on the wall behind each child shows who has had a turn.
More Christmas printables
The four toppers here all say something about jingling. If you are filling more bags than that, the Christmas treat bag toppers sheet has eight more, four with a message and four left blank so you can write a name on them, and its 3 inch ones are the same width as these.
For a house with a small child in it, roll a couple of pages from the Christmas colouring book, tie them with a scrap of ribbon and leave them beside the bag. If what you are giving is baking in a jar, the Christmas jar labels are made for that.
Everything we make is on the free printables page, which is also where the sign sends anyone who finds a bag, and none of it needs an email address.
Common questions
How does You've Been Jingled work?
Somebody leaves a bag of treats and the sign on your doorstep and slips away, and then it is your turn: you keep the treats, tape the bell page in a front window so the street can see your house is done, and leave two bags of your own at two doors with no bell showing. The sign in this kit has those steps printed on it, so whoever finds the bag can read what happened while still standing on the step. It stops on its own once most of the street has a bell up.
Is there a You've Been Jingled version for the office or a classroom?
Yes, pages 4 and 5 are the desk version: the same sign worded for a desk, with five steps written for a workplace, and a bell page that says This desk has been Jingled, which you tape up once you have had your turn. They are in the same file as the doorstep pages and on both paper sizes, so print pages 3 to 5 on Letter or 8 to 10 on A4 (3 and 8 are the bag toppers) and leave the rest. Put the bag on the person's chair or keyboard rather than on a shared table, so it reaches the right desk and not the first person through the door.
What do you put in a You've Been Jingled bag?
Anything small that will sit happily on a cold step for an hour: a candy cane or two, chocolate coins, a little bag of biscuits or popcorn, a sachet of hot chocolate, a pair of Christmas socks, or a colouring page for a house with a small child in it. Two or three things is plenty, and nobody is keeping score of what it cost. Leave out anything that melts or goes soft in the damp, and if the bag has to sit outside, hang it by its handles on the door handle rather than standing it on a wet step.
