Godparent Gift

Ah, why are you giving them a gift? They are supposed to give your daughter a gift! At least that's how I've always seen it done with our family & friends.....

Hello....One idea might be an gift with your baby's picture on it.....you can do a ton of different things...ornaments, mugs, mouse pads, shirts, bags....go to Walmart.com, or Shutterfly and they have a ton of options to choose from...good luck!! (If you do an ornament, you can do one every year at Christmas time for the baby's Godparents)

Do you have pictures of you and them when you were batized? If so, make a special shadow box or picture frame with that and a space to put a new picture of them and your daughter. make/buy a cross or other religious item.
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What about a rosary? They have some really unique and beautiful ones out there.

We gave our daughters godparents a beautiful big basket full of annual flower plants that was beaufifully decorated. Another idea would be a fruit tree, or shrub.

Northwestern Books has a whole section on Godparent stuff. When my son was baptized we got a nice frame engraved with a saying about Godparents, and put in a picture of the three of them together.

Picture plates that you can hang on the wall are nice. You take a picture, a clear glass plate and some fabric. You trim the picture to fit the middle center bottom of the plate so you can see it through the front and use the modge-podge to stick the fabric over the entire back (bottom) of the plate. These can be displayed in many ways. You could do two: one of you and your godparents and one of your daughter and her godparents.

Wow, I didnt know that you were supposed to buy the god parents presents.. I never got one from my god child or god childs parents more like it, I figured it's more the thing that the god parents are supposed to give the god child a gift.. I would keep it really simple. I dont know if I'm a little out of the loop but I never expected anything and am just learning now that it's something you do.. Maybe a little hand print in plaster or something like that?

Don't always feel that you need to do a religious gift. There are so many things that can show your appreciation just as well.
If they are out of towners - a gift card for gas as well as dinner.
If they are ones you see most often - a plant or a shrub/tree where they can not only watch your children grow but the tree grow (great for the environment anyway)
Good Luck!

I am wandering the same questions so I'll be watching your post to seek answers too. Thanks for posting it!

K.

How about a picture frame that has one place for a picture of you and your godparents when you were baptized and another place for your godparents with your daughter?

Try going to a local religious bookstore and browsing. They may have something that really catches your eye or gives you a great idea. My family is pretty lame with things like baptisms or confirmations. Traditionally we get bibles and cross necklaces or birthstone pendants although when I was baptised as an adult (the church my mom took me to did adult baptisms, not confirmations) one of my godmothers gave me a VERY beautiful painting of Christ that had been matted and put in a golden frame. Maybe you could get the footprints in the sand picture and then make a mold of the childs feet and your feet side by side and have them framed together? That seems kind of complicated but I think it would be nice. Anyway, hope I've sparked some ideas for you and best of luck! I'd love to hear what you decide on if you wouldn't mind letting me know. I love great ideas!

I bought a nice Frame for each God Parent, and with my digital camera, took pictures of them each holding my daughter in front of the baptismal font at the church. Then, when we got home...I quickly downloaded the photo's, printed them and slipped them into the frame for each, then dropped them into a gift bag with a thank-you note. They don't need much, and this is something personal just for them. This is really your daughters baptism so gifts for her will be more prevolent for her than for them, and they won't be expecting much...it's an honor to be a God Parent and is usually Gift enough. I'm a God parent, and I didn't get anything, and certainly didn't expect anything...so just something small is good. Infact, the only ones that had their pictures taken with my daughter by the Baptismal font were us parents, God Parents, my daughter and the Pastor. That's it. The rest were taken at the house or in other parts of the church. So, a photo by the font is special just for the God Parents. :)

I did an engraved frame with our daughters name on the top and the engraved date of baptism and then put a picture of all of us in it. That would be special for them because it includes you in there with their newsest god child! Or a frame that said "Heaven Sent" would be nice. Express your feelings in a card and the gift will be extra special no matter what it is

Hi. we just had our 6 week old daughter baptized on mother's day. I too, was in the situation where I didn't know what to give as a gift. After talking to many people, most people said no gift was necessary. We still felt we'd like to give them something...so I bought picture frames and etched "godmother/godfather" into the glass, along w/ her name. The picture frames were a hit, and I can now give them updated pictures as she grows. I hope this helps!

For my second daughter I bought her Godparents each somthing different. I bought my uncle a book of bible scriptures from Hallmark, it was a really neat book. I then wrote a special message on the inside for him as if it was from my daughter. For my cousin I bought her a silver cross necklace. It was a reasonable price (like $25) and she loved it...I also included a note from my daughter inside the box. The both LOVED their gifts :)I hope this helps!!!

At Hallmark or Herbergers and Odessy they have Willow Tree statues. I give them as godparent gifts they have one for most anything, they have a ton of great statues that will work for godparents. I think you can also go online and order them too.

My son was just baptized a couple of weeks ago. We gave his godmother a book that is a year's worth of devotional readings especially for women. We gave the godfather some music CDs--most were of our church's choir.

After the baptism, we also sent them a ton of photos taken during and after the service.

How about a double picture frame: one pic of you and them at your baptism and the other pic of them with your daughter?

You have a lot of responses for picture frames. Go to Things Remembered and have a nice frame engraved with the date and your daughters name on it, or find a special poem about godparents and what a gift they are to us.