1. Make a video

Making a video can help show your loved ones how special this adoption is to you and your family. It’s also a great opportunity to answer questions you know will be asked and to explain your journey so far. It’s a wonderful time to involve your friends and family in the small parts of your experience and show them what the timeline looks like until your child comes home.

2. Use your other kids in a photo

Having a picture of your children with shirts or a sign that says “Big Brother” or “Big Sister” can pull on your heartstrings. What a great way to announce your adoption and involve the children already in your home in the excitement of their future sibling.

3. Map it out

If you are adopting internationally, taking a photo with a heart over the country you have chosen can be a great way to announce your adoption.  

4. Eat cake and be merry

You can’t go wrong with cake! While surrounded by your friends and family, celebrating with cupcakes can be a great way to announce you’re adopting. Whether you decorate them pink or blue to show the gender of your future child, you use the icing colors of your future child’s country’s flag, or you draw a puzzle piece on the top and say “we’ve found our missing piece,” everyone will be so excited to celebrate with you.

5. God Found Us You

There are quite a few super sweet adoption books out there that you can use to announce your adoption. Whether you give the book to your children to announce the addition of a new sibling or you take a picture of your family reading this book to announce to those on your social media accounts, you can’t go wrong. Some books that have gotten lots of love from those in the adoption world are God Found Us You by Lisa Bergren and I Prayed For You by Jean Fischer.

6. Pet lovers, unite! 

If you have a dog, cat, bird, or other animal that your family loves and adores, using it to help announce your adoption can be a cute and fun way to involve the whole family!  Putting a sign around the pet’s neck saying “Big Brother,” “Big Sister,” or “Protective Detail Starting Soon” can be a great way to announce your adoption. It is sure to get lots of love from friends and family.

7. Empty chair, full hearts

A great way to announce that your family is adopting is to take a picture with all of your family members sitting in chairs with one empty chair.I have seen some people put a globe in the chair if they are adopting internationally or a chalkboard with the announcement details.  

8. Late to the game, but the best one of all

If you didn’t share your adoption until after you were matched or already home, the absolute best way to announce your adoption is with a picture of your child. Everyone will jump for joy as they look at the face of your new child.

There are so many ways to announce your adoption, and price should not be a reason you decide against it. Don’t let cost stand in the way of announcing the growth of your family with joy and pride. Choose a way to show your loved ones what has happened in your life and let them celebrate with you.

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1. Pride in your family

Announcing your adoption is the perfect way to show excitement and pride in your new family. With a new addition, whether that be biological or adoptive, celebrating with your loved ones helps make the experience even more joyful. With this announcement, you get to show your friends and family how much you are fighting for your family, how far you are willing to go to find them (literally!), and how loved this child is already even though you haven’t met him or her yet. Adoption announcements can give parents that extra boost of motivation to continue pushing through those stacks of paperwork.

2. Thank your supporters/Raise support

Whether you announce your adoption before you are matched or after, this is a perfect way to gain support. Adoption takes a village, and this is the perfect time to show others that you need prayer, encouragement, fundraising help, and lots of patience. With your announcement can come an announcement of your first fundraising pitch, or a thankful exposé to those who have already financially supported your journey. Announcing your adoption is the perfect time to show your thankfulness to those who have and will lift you and your family up when you need it the most.

3. Adoption awareness 

Your adoption announcement is also a great time to spread adoption awareness. Many people in your inner circle may not know about the orphan crisis here in our country and around the world. With adoption, announcing helps open up the door for family and friends to ask the burning questions of their hearts. It helps to alleviate the nervousness that can sometimes surround new adoptive parents when they tell their family about their life-changing decision, and it can give your loved ones a way to get involved in helping orphans. We are all called to love and help the fatherless, but we are not all called to adopt. So, when you announce your adoption, it can give others the avenue their heart has been searching for to involve themselves in the orphan crisis of the world.

So, go and announce your adoption. Announce it with pride and watch how your loving, supportive village will circle you and lift you up when you need it. And you never know, your adoption announcement may spur another family to pursue an adoption journey of their own.

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No one will deny the most common way to announce the exciting news of a baby is with cute photo announcements! All of these announcements are custom made and easy to make yourself, or you can also find plenty online. Adoption announcements are really becoming popular and can be found on most websites that already have announcements and invitations.

#1: Short and Sweet-Announcing the future adoption, and in this case already being matched with an expected arrival date! This can also be done with announcing fostering!

#2 and 3-Themed Announcements! There are several themes you can use when announcing your adoption. “The Adventure Begins” and “It’s O’Fishal” are just two of many. Two other favorites are “We have found our missing piece!” (Puzzle Theme) and “Even Superman was Adopted!” (Superheroes).

Many people choose to also have an adoption party, especially when adopting an older child. It is fun and cute to coordinate the announcements with the theme of the party. You can also announce on an invitation to the party!

#4-Birth Announcement-Announcing the birth of your child, but with an emphasis on adoption! “Worth the Wait” and “Welcome Home” have been paired together for this announcement. You can also use themes for infant birth announcements as well.

Adoption is an exciting time in any family. Whether that adoption comes domestically, internationally, through foster care, as an infant, or as an older child, it should be celebrated and announced to the world! Adoption announcements will excite your closest friends and family and make them eager to meet your new addition,

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1. Plant a family tree! This is a great idea to commemorate such a wonderful occasion. The tree can serve as a reminder day after day of your family and the commitment you’ve made to grow together. Kids can be involved, helping to dig the soil and water it daily. And adults appreciate the symbolic reminder year after year as the tree continues to flourish.

2. Buy a new set of Christmas Stockings, Easter Baskets, Halloween Bags or any other traditional Holiday item (depending on the nearest season) and personalize it! Kids love to see that they belong and having their name on an item that matches the rest of the family is a fun way to express this idea.

3. Make a set of dinner plates! Lots of places offer pottery painting these days. Find your local studio, grab the family, and spend an afternoon working on your masterpieces. Each family member can create a plate that’s unique to them, and together you will have created a beautiful new set of dinnerware to enjoy each night as a reminder of your adoption day.

4. Family Photo! This one is you could’ve come up with on your own, but it is so important to take photographs for big days like today. Perhaps you could invite caseworkers, the children’s attorneys, or their birth parents to join in–the more the merrier! It takes a village, so how nice it would be for the children to see a huge photo of all of the people that love and care for them.

5. Potluck Picnic! In the way you have blended your family, you can also blend a party plan. Rather than go alone and do it yourself, why not ask each guest to bring one decoration and one food item to share? This eclectic and fun idea can really bring out some fun for everyone–show how you can make everything work together. (And save you some time and money too!)

6. Date Night! This might not be the only option you choose, but it should be one of them–especially if you’ve adopted a younger child or baby. It is important for you and your significant other to celebrate the both of you as well or if you are single, to take care of yourself! Take the time to breathe and refresh without the little ones in tow. There is nothing wrong with recognizing that this adoption was a whirlwind for you too!

7. Sidewalk “repair!” What is more precious than little hand prints in the concrete? Capture this time by adding the families handprints to either a piece of your front walkway or even make a garden stepping stone where you could leave these imprints. Twenty years from now, you’ll be so glad you did when you look back at this moment!

8. Take some time off! Spend a nice long weekend away together! Bring some fun games to play that focus on how well you know each other or just take the time to be silly together and unwind. Not able to get away? Take a day off work, make a big breakfast, and stay in your PJs all day! Make it a yearly “ditch day” and forego the hustle and bustle of everyday for the celebration of your adoption. Even if your “ditch day” falls on a day you don’t necessarily have any work, school, or plans, add it to your calendar and make sure the family knows that when the day comes up nothing will be scheduled on it!

Happy Adoption Day friends! No matter what you choose to do, enjoy every minute of it!

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