From Carrie Craft,
Your Guide to Adoption / Foster Care.
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Running out of ideas for your adoption support group? Here are a few that your families may enjoy. Great ideas for a kids adoption support group.

1. Do service for children who wait in foster care. For some ideas read 9 Ways to Help Children in Foster Care

2. Take a trip to the zoo and have the children find and select an animal that is a favorite from their birth country and tell why at your next group meeting.

3. Seek out pen pals from another country.

4. Picnics in a park.

5. Swimming.

6. Work on scrapbooks/lifebooks. Invite someone to share a completed or updated lifebook and share what it means to them. Read about Madhu and how his lifebook helped him heal from a traumatic start in life.

7. Hold a dance party. Perhaps the kids could learn a traditional dance? Maybe focus on a different dance each month?

8. Trips to museums of art, history, etc.

9. Host a food night where families bring traditional dinners. Traditional from their country, family, or culture. This activity can be done in several different ways - one group creates appetizer, while another does the main course, and a different family brings the dessert. Choose to do one country a night or have lots of different dishes from a variety of countries to sample from.

10. Learn phrases in different languages.

11. Have a story night. Make up stories to share, read traditional ones, or create a story of your own. Invite a story teller.

12. Invite someone to sing silly songs with the kids. This is a LOT of fun.

13. Go to a concert.

14. Put on a carnival. You could include games from different countries.

15. Host Chats: Invite a therapist, an adoption specialist, or an adult adoptee to talk with your group about various adoption topics. Topics could include:

Explaining adoption to your friends.
Growing up in a mixed race family.
Handling bullies.
How to respond to common questions.

I hope this helps! Let me know what you try that works.