from Tkinter import * canvas = Canvas(width=300, height=300, bg='white') canvas.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH) canvas.create_rectangle(200, 200, 300, 300, width=5, fill='red') widget = Label(canvas, text='AAA', fg='white', bg='black') widget.pack() canvas.create_window(100, 100, window=widget) mainloop()