<p>We aren’t Catholic, but my child got several religious themed gifts at his baptism, a puzzle of Noah’s ark, a picture book with a religious story, and a children’s bible. His godmother gave him an outfit to wear at the party afterwards, after we changed him out of the family heirloom gown.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the great ideas! I have to get out today or tomorrow to see what I can find since the baptism is on Sunday.</p>
<p>From a Catholic–there are very wide ranges not only of practice among Cathlics but also in tastes reagrding religious items. There are an awful lot of people who will find the plaque of the angle with “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” etc something their Grandma would like, and there are many many Catholics who have not touched a rosary since—well who knows. I was going to say the day they got a little white one at their First Communions but they may not have received one then! </p>
<p>yet I have relatives who would melt at receipt of these things. So it depends on the person.</p>
<p>However, I think the advice for a child level bible is very sound—you can get board books for little hands with “Bible stories” and for that age group they are not going into difference between consubstantiation vs transubstatiation, or the authority of the Pope. You could get a couple of board books of that type and also a child Bible for the preschool age, to cover some time frame. </p>
<p>We got our grandson a pottery Celtic cross to hang in his bedroom; it is in rustic colors suitable for a boy. For his First Communion, we got an icon of his patron saint (John the evangelist—whose symbol is a cool fierce looking eagle which is sitting next to the book John is penning). </p>
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