By David Crabtree, Sky News Correspondent
Organisers say a pilot "adoption party" project for prospective parents to meet children in need of new families is proving a huge success.
According to the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), at one recent activity day event in Kent 34 out of 54 children found possible links to new foster parents.
The events are designed for people who are already well advanced in the adoption process.
They get to meet children at play while the youngsters enjoy face, painting, climbing and other activities.
The children's foster parents or social workers attend the event to support them.
It is part of a scheme to help speed up the process and find adoptive parents for those children who may be more difficult to place.
More than 6,000 children are going through the adoption process with only 1,800 prospective parents approved and waiting for a child.
One couple adopted sisters aged five and six, after attending an adoption party in the Midlands. Their identities have to be protected.
The 'adoption parties' include a range of activities Their new mother Kirsty said: "We saw them playing, it was lovely. We just had the feeling that we could be parents to these children.
"It is like they have always been part of our family. It is still fairly early days, but it is like they have always been with us."
A number of events have been held around the country and more are planned.
Of the 170 children who have attended the first four events, families have been identified for 29 of them, a success rate of 17%.
Bridgett Betts, the Adoption Activity Day programme manager, said: "There have always been more children waiting for adoptive families, than we have adoptive families to parent them.
"And these children are often older children, children with disabilities or sibling groups and BAAF wanted to look at the idea of using adoption parties which have been very popular in the United States."
Sir Martin Narey, the Government's adviser on social care, believes activity days may help with the "scandal" of black children waiting longer for foster parents than white children.
He said: "What they do is bring together potential adopters and potential children and they recognise the fact that there is some chemistry involved in these relationships.
"Children and parents can meet each other and you see if there is something there that might make an adoption successful.
"Their record of getting children adopted who might not otherwise get adopted, is very very good and the success in the adoptions lasting forever is good."
He and BAAF say adoption parties will become more common and bring forward more adopters for a growing number of children who need a home.
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