I always look forward to filling our children’s Easter baskets each year with books and gifts that incorporate our beautiful Catholic faith! I also love incorporating the various Easter Symbols and filling a basket with various gifts for the whole family to enjoy. You can read more about the various Easter Symbols here and find many gift ideas here. Easter Sunday has already passed this year, but perhaps this post will give you some gift ideas for upcoming sacraments, birthdays, or even next Easter!
All of the wooden animals and figures came from The Wooden Wagon. Like all hand carved wooden toys, they aren’t cheap, but I did get a discount on them using a promo code they sent out in January. We started our children’s collection last year on their birthdays and Christmas and look forward to adding to it little by little over time. Our five year old plays with all of his wooden animals on a daily basis. Wish I would have started collecting these years ago to go along with the rest of our wooden blocks and saint dolls!
This year, in addition to their books, all of our older children were excited to receive Catholic and/or Pro-Life T-shirts which we had ordered from a couple different online websites along with new missal or bible covers from MissalCovers.com purchased with that credit I mentioned in yesterday’s post. I don’t think a day has passed when I haven’t seen at least one of the t-shirts on one of our children. The older boys had gotten a couple Catholic T-shirts last year as well, along with some fun t-shirts for Christmas, so I knew they’d love them. They are also really enjoying their subscription to the Catholic T-Shirt Club!
- Manual for Spiritual Warfare (with his name embossed on the front)
- A Man Cleansed by God: A Novel Based on the Life of Saint Patrick
- A Shepherd in Combat Boots: Chaplain Emil Kapaun of the 1st Cavalry Division
- Scripture Illuminated
- OSU Beavers themed golf ball marker Cap Clips
- Get Holy or Die Tryin’ T-Shirt from Catholic to the Max (features some of his favorite saints including St. Isaac Jogues and St. Maximilian Kolbe)
- Celtic Cross T-Shirt which was also from Catholic to the Max
- Dominican Shield Missal Cover custom made to fit his beautiful Leather Bound Catholic Bible (pictured in this post) with his initials on the back
- Chocolate Cross, Eggs, and a few other little treats
- Manual for Spiritual Warfare (with his name embossed on the front)
- A Man Born Again: A Novel Basked on the Life of Saint Thomas More (He has almost finished reading this story and has brought it up to me a number of times. Sounds really great!)
- Nice Going, Red: The Story of a Boy who “Couldn’t Take It” (also available directly from St. Augustine Academy Press)
- Windows Into Christ: A Coloring Book for Prayer and Meditation
- OSU Beavers themed golf driver cover
- Spiritual Warfare T-Shirt from Totally Catholic Tees (Seemed appropriate as he prepares for the sacrament of Confirmation and to be a Soldier of Christ!)
- I Can Do All Things T-Shirt (in Apple Green) which was also from Totally Catholic Tees
- St. John the Evangelist Symbol Custom Cover made to fit his beautiful Leather Bound Catholic Bible (pictured in this post) with his name embroidered on the back
- Chocolate Cross, Eggs, and a few other little treats
- Prayers and Heavenly Promises
- Brigid and the Butter
- The Shadow of the Bear: A Fairy Tale Retold (She had finished this book by the day after Easter!)
- Our Lady’s Garden: A Coloring Book for Prayer and Meditation
- Rain Cover for her golf bag
- Who’s your hero? “Heart” Girly T-Shirt (on sale for only $10!) from Totally Catholic Tees
- Life T-Shirt (in Deep Heather Teal) which was also from Totally Catholic Tees
- St. Rita Missal Cover (white vinyl) made to fit her copy of Jesus, Make Me Worthy with her name embroidered on the back and a pocket for a favorite holy card
- Easter Note Sheets, Immaculate Heart Note Sheets, and Our Lady of Fatima Note Cards (purchased during a clearance sale from Trademark Catholic Stationary)
- Chocolate Cross, Eggs, and a few other little treats
- The Costly Cookie Chronicles
- The Chestertons and the Golden Key
- Saint Clare of Assisi: Runaway Rich Girl
- 32 Days: A Story of Faith and Courage
- Life Girly T-Shirt (in Light Blue) from Totally Catholic Tees
- Guadalupe T-Shirt which was also from Totally Catholic Tees
- Floral Lace Mantilla in Lilac
- Custom Floral IHS Missal Cover (white vinyl with purple IHS and pink flowers) made to fit her First Holy Communion Bible with her name embroidered on the back and a pocket for a favorite holy card
- Two packages of Sts. Francis and Clare Note Sheets (one with envelopes) and Our Lady of Fatima Note Cards (purchased during a clearance sale from Trademark Catholic Stationary)
- Chocolate Cross, Eggs, and a few other little treats
Note: She loved all four of her books and had read them by the end of the week following Easter Sunday… Her comment after reading 32 Days: A Story of Faith and Courage? “It was SOOOOO good, but I wept BUCKETS!” ❤
- A Young Catholic’s Daily Missal
- Will Wilder #2: The Lost Staff of Wonders
- The Shadow of His Wings: A Graphic Biography of Fr. Gereon Goldmann
- Wind In the Willows
- St. Michael Kid’s T-Shirt from Catholic to the Max
- Custom St. Michael Archangel Missal Cover made to fit A Young Catholic’s Daily Missal with his name embroidered on the back
- Baseball Gloves
- Chocolate Cross, Eggs, and a few other little treats
- St. Therese Wooden Saint from Naturally Catholic
- King and Lady-in-Waiting Wooden Figures (to add to her Fairy Tale collection from her last birthday – I ordered a number of Ostheimer figures from The Wooden Wagon during an after Christmas sale to use as gifts this year!)
- Custom made Pearl & Rose Missal Cover for Jesus Make Me Worthy (white vinyl with her name embroidered on the back)
- Flowers for Jesus: A Story of Thérèse of Lisieux as a Young Girl (Hardcover edition)
- Mary and the Little Shepherds of Fatima
- Rapunzel: Based on the Original Story by the Brothers Grimm
- Hershey’s Chocolate Cross and See’s Sweet Surprise Chicks Chocolate Eggs
- Simon of Cyrene and the Legend of the Easter Egg
- Nikola and the Monk
- Adventures in Brambly Hedge
- Wonders of Nature
- Wooden Lion, Baby Elephant, Baby Crocodile, and Running Fox (The lion was me thinking ahead to the upcoming Chronicles of Narnia birthday party!)
- St. Florian from Catholic Folk Toys
- Hershey’s Chocolate Cross and See’s Sweet Surprise Chicks Chocolate Eggs
Last year (March 2016) I had ordered four (two sets of two) Miniature Birettas from Michele Quigley to go along with all his wooden saint dolls. I kept forgetting to give them to him but they finally made it into this year’s Easter basket! He placed on on St. Florian but then decided he needed a more appropriate saint (St. Florian was a soldier, not a priest) and so he ran over to get St. John Paul II.
Maybe someday I’ll get back around to posting pictures from the past couple years…
I love everything about this post and it was very timely! Our Godson's confirmation is coming up in a couple of weeks and he devours books. I think he will like the book about Fr. Kapaun and the one about St. Thomas More. Thanks for the recommendations!
2017-05-09 01:05:30
This post is wonderful. every basket is done with such thought. I love all the book recommendations. Jessica wishing you a Happy and Blessed Mother's day. Marion
2017-05-09 22:22:07
What a nice basket for each child. You sure have put a lot of thought and love into each basket. I would be looking into purchasing some of the gifts you mentioned. Have a Blessed Mother's Day. Marilyn
2017-05-09 22:32:46