Baptism Gifts

I know it's a little late in the year to be posting about baptism gifts, but I wanted to get it on here.  We as a presidency have decided that we wanted to give each child that gets baptized a gift the next day in primary.  We used to do a spotlight when our stake did all of the baptisms together.  Now that we do our baptisms on a ward level we no longer do a spotlight that the children will receive.  So we wanted them to receive something after their baptism.  This is the list of things we give them in their gift bag.  We give them a Faith in God book, a journal, article of faith cards, a book with notes from everyone at their baptism, and a framed pictured of them with the man that baptized them.  We tried to keep it inexpensive so the journal came from the dollar store.  For the boys it was just a smaller notebook and for the girls a cuter type notebook.  We also bought the picture frame for the picture at the dollar store.  The article of faith cards we used we found here, but there are tons of printable ones out there. Just look on pinterest. ;)
Now we come to the book with the notes.  I've been to lots of baptisms where they have the people there supporting the child write a little something to them and their testimony.  I really liked the idea and wished I would have done it with my two oldest kids. So I made a half sheet of paper with a tie border on each half for the boys and a flower border for the girls. We hand those out while the kids are changing and then gather them up at the end.  After the baptism I take them home and put them together.  I use the program from the baptism for the front of the book and at the end we used this letter.  Sugardoodle is actually where we got the idea for the book. I also laminate all of the pages.  I got a laminator from my husband for an anniversary gift a while back and it has been the best gift ever. I laminate everything!!!!  Then I bind the whole book together.  I go do this at Honor Copy in our town because it is open 24 hours and it only costs $0.75 to bind it.  There are other places you could take it to or you could use a hole punch and some brass rings.
I also take the picture and get it printed that day too.  It's kind of a lot to do after the baptism is over so that we can have it to give to them in primary the next day, but it is well worth it and is something special for them.