Step1
If you have not written your "dear birthmother" letter yet, you will need to write it now. This letter is your family's heartfelt written introduction to the potential birthmother explaining who you are and why you want to be chosen to parent a child. Try not to feel as if you are in competition with other potential adoptive parents. The competitive side of this is to communicate your family's uniqueness and warmth. Even if you think you are like everyone else, you will find that you are quite unique and special in another person's eyes.
Step2
Type out and print your letter, double spacing between paragraphs. Print it out in a clean clear font that is easy to read. Make sure the print is large enough to be read easily as well, but not oversized as to take up too much space when placed in you pages.
Step3
Look at your birthmother letter. Can it be broken up into sections? A good letter may start with an introduction of yourselves to place on page one, maybe a story of how you met on page two, a lttle about each of you as individuals for pages three and four, and so on... cut out each paragraph and place them in pages that will correspond to the topics in your letter. This will map out your profile. Now you can see how each page has a topic, and portion of your letter.
Step4
Choose your photographs for each page to illustrate your letter. Your photographs can be actual pictures or printed on paper from your computer. Your first or title page should have a picture of you as a couple, large enough to take up at least a third of the entire page. This will be your cover and the first impression the potential birthmother will have of you.
Step5
Now that you have chosen pictures to illustrate your letter, go through your craft or scrapbook paper and choose a color scheme for each page. Pull colors from your photographs and use the same in your pages. Using same, opposite or similar colors will help to give your pages a clean artistic look. Compile your craft paper and apply it to your cardstock paper to give it a heavy weight backing.
Step6
Add your images and paragraphs to each page. Make sure you vary the layouts and shapes to make it interesting to the eye and leave enough room on your pages where the hole punch will eventually go through (you wouldn't want to end up hole punching through your picture or letter!). Add your paper embellishments (craft or scrapbook stores carry little flat paper baby cribs, storks, little sayings, etc.) to the pages. Embellishments can illustrate things that you did not mention in your letter but are a part of you and your family. You may not have written that you like to snow ski in your letter but you can place a pair of skis on your page that is about you to illustrate that point.
Step7
After each page is crafted to your satisfaction, you will have the original profile in your possession. You can submit that profile to your adoption caseworker for one last approval before you duplicate it. To make your copies, the easiest way is to take it to a copy center such as Office Depot, Kinkos or Staples and have their print center make color copies double-sided onto cardstock paper. Double check your copies to make sure that they are clear and correct.
Step8
Assemble your copies by taking each double-sided page and placing them in order. Use a hole punch, (a 3 ring punch works best, but hand held will do in a pinch) and carefully punch holes into your copies. Use a small cloth ribbon or brads to bind the copies into a booklet. Check each copy to make sure that they are perfect. And now you are ready to distribute your very artistic adoption profile!
After each page is crafted to your satisfaction, you will have the original profile in your possession. You can submit that profile to your adoption caseworker for one last approval before you duplicate it. To make your copies, the easiest way is to take it to a copy center such as Office Depot, Kinkos or Staples and have their print center make color copies double-sided onto cardstock paper. Double check your copies to make sure that they are clear and correct.
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