ideas for Christening gift?

Doveling

I would buy a small, wooden carved box. Around £10.00 in gift shops. Then buy one lovely piece of paper from a craft shop.

If your handwriting is good, do it yourself, if not,pick a nice font on the computer and print this rhyme on a smaller piece of paper to stick onto the lovely piece.

On Your Christening
Baby's Name
Date

This is your FOREVER box.
For letters, trinkets, baby's locks.
A box for all your precious things,
A box for when your dreams take wings.
A box to hold all the above,
Forever yours, from me, with love.

Roll the paper up like a scroll tie with ribbon and place in box.
Works for a boy or girl, just change colour of paper and ribbon.
I think this will be something which is used. Did it for my nieces and nephews. They kept marbles, jewellery and allsorts in them HTH

theoretica

The other tradition is port to be drunk when the child reaches 18/21.

Armchair23

Well after consultation with my now two grown up children we have binned, recycled or charity shopped the weird useless stuff they were gifted as kids,sounds heartless I know.

You can wait 20 years and find that the coin/stamp option is worth less than someone paid for it. Photo frames are not everyones cup of tea and a moneybox with some teddies on the side loses it's appeal after a while.

I love the notion of traditional christening gifts but who want's a silver/ivory teething ring for life ?

We still have a good laugh at the grandparents getting the name wrong on the engraved silver mug, neither use nor ornament.

I'm not a professional grump but I am a gifted amateur !

Turtle

I don't like any of those knick knacky things, they'll just go in a cupboard. I've only been to one Christening as an adult and we bought a Beatrix Potter pottery cup, bowl and plate set, it was around £30. At least it can be used when the child gets a little bit older and if it gets broken, so be it.

suejb2

I like to gift plants/shrub/bush that shares the name of the recipient.

74jax

I know it's not for everyone but I'm guessing you know the parents well. The last christening I went to we paid for a child to have imunisations abroad in an underdeveloped country. I 100% appreciate that's not everyone's idea of a gift but the parents had said they really didn't want anything and I know her well and she loved this idea. You would need to know the parents well enough tho. Some parents could hate it.

notanewuser

We gave our nephew a set of Peter Rabbit books.

LilElvis

theoretica wrote: »

The other tradition is port to be drunk when the child reaches 18/21.

How many 18 or 21 year olds drink port?

Every Christmas I pour about £50 of port into my cranberry sauce as its the only way it's going to be used. Bit of a waste really.

mtbbuxton

Both my boys were given one of these year cutlery sets and they were used every day when they were younger.

https://www.arthurprice.com/products-page/gifts/childrens-gifts/2015-childs-set/

I still use the teaspoons now, over 20 years later

M x

theoretica

LilElvis wrote: »

How many 18 or 21 year olds drink port?

I suspect more than would use a silver money box.

In my recollection anything drinkable got drunk. Actually the more obscure the better sometimes.