Forever Fingerprints

Sherrie Eldridge speaking on Forever Fingerprints

The Value of the Book:

These resources have been designed to accompany the Forever Fingerprints book! It is versatile and can be used in a variety of ways to meet the needs to families and children. The book itself:

  • Provides a tool for talking adoption in a healthy way with your children

  • Shows the secret of showing unconditional love to your adopted or foster child

  • Helps the child feel a deepened sense of connection to both parents–adoptive/foster and birth families.

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Adoption Ceremony to Accompany Book:

This short ceremony helps bring structure to a difficult day of saying goodbye, either to one’s birth parents or foster parents.

Downloads:

Forever Fingerprints Adoption Ceremony
When You Say Goodbye

The Craft Sheet to Use for Personal or Public Fingerprinting Events

This craft sheet can be used in a variety of ways. Just supply these stheets (free download here) and ask everyone present to make a picture about adoption with fingerprints, colored markers, etc.

You will be amazed at what everyone creates!

Fingerprinting Activities for:

  1. National Adoption Month (November)
  2. Orphan Sunday
  3. Book store reading
  4. Llibrary reading
  5. School reading
  6. Life books–have your child do one every year and see how his/her view of adoption changes over the years!

Downloads:
Forever Fingerprints Craft Sheet

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Sherrie and baby Hannah.

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