Girl Scout Cookie Program Tips, Tricks & Activities for Juniors Troop Leader / Cookie Manager Getting Ready Steps • Sign up for a Cookie Rookie Training Session (in person, scheduled webinar or on-line training at your convenience) • Get familiar with your Troop Cookie Manager training guide. • Be sure you are receiving Cookiegrams. You can always access these emails online. • Schedule your kick-off parent / caregiver meeting prior to program start date. This is the time you gather your support team for encouraging deadlines, sending reminder / support emails along the way and begin to decide if you want to do booth sales (potentially needing additional chaperones). Here are some helpful steps for your parent / caregiver meeting. • Review special marketing tools, decide what you want and place your order for business cards, thank you cards and thank you stickers as desired. Other downloads available too. Try Out Some Fun Activities to Kick-Off / Throughout the Season Juniors are jumping right into their cookie business! We want them to keep practicing those 5 Skills: Business Ethics - Girls act honestly and responsibly during every step of the cookie sale. This matters because employers want to hire ethical employees—and the world needs ethical leaders in every field. Goal Setting - Girls learn how to set goals and create a plan to reach them. This matters because girls need to know how to set and reach goals to succeed in school, on the job, and in life. Decision Making - Girls learn to make decisions on their own and as a team. This matters because girls must make many decisions, big and small, in their lives. Learning this skill helps them make good ones.
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Girl Scout Cookie Program Tips, Tricks & Activities for Juniors
Troop Leader / Cookie Manager Getting Ready Steps
• Sign up for a Cookie Rookie Training Session (in person, scheduled webinar or on-line training at your
convenience)
• Get familiar with your Troop Cookie Manager training guide.
• Be sure you are receiving Cookiegrams. You can always access these emails online.
• Schedule your kick-off parent / caregiver meeting prior to program start date. This is the time you gather your support team for encouraging deadlines, sending reminder / support emails along the way and begin
to decide if you want to do booth sales (potentially needing additional chaperones). Here are some helpful
steps for your parent / caregiver meeting.
• Review special marketing tools, decide what you want and place your order for business cards, thank you
cards and thank you stickers as desired. Other downloads available too.
Try Out Some Fun Activities to Kick-Off / Throughout the Season
Juniors are jumping right into their cookie business! We want them to keep practicing those 5 Skills:
Business Ethics - Girls act honestly and responsibly during every step of the cookie sale. This matters because employers want to hire ethical employees—and the world needs ethical leaders in every field.
Goal Setting - Girls learn how to set goals and create a plan to reach them. This matters because girls need to know how to set and reach goals to succeed in school, on the job, and in life.
Decision Making - Girls learn to make decisions on their own and as a team. This matters because girls must make many decisions, big and small, in their lives. Learning this skill helps them make good ones.
Money Management - Girls learn to create a budget and handle money. This matters because girls need to know how to handle money—from their lunch money to their allowance to (someday) their paycheck.
People Skills - Girls find their voice and build confidence through customer interactions. This matters because it helps them do better in school (on group projects, on sports teams, and on the playground) and, later, at work.
We also encourage working toward some Junior badges and the Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin. For the pin, do a
couple steps in troop and then encourage parents / caregivers and their Junior to work together on the remaining
steps.
Find Out the Cost of Fun
Sometimes the things we might enjoy doing with our family or in Girl Scouts cost money. Discover how much
some of these fun things cost and how to plan for these expenses.
*Steps toward the Junior Cookie CEO badge
Materials:
• Look at www.gsksmo.org/community or www.outdoor.gsksmo.org
• Look at other local opportunities or short trips Juniors are interested in
• Calculators
• Paper to prepare your budget worksheet
• Pencil / markers
• Goal Thermometer
Directions
• Have the girls work in small groups of three. Help split them up if needed.
• Explain to the girls that they are going to find out how much some of the things they might like to do with
their troop would cost and decide how many boxes of cookies they need to sell in order to do these
activities.
• Have each group pick one of the activities you / the group have pre-chosen. Place the activity on the sheet
of paper (budget worksheet) and determine the initial cost of the activity.
• With the help of an adult, determine the other expenses that might be associated with this event: food,
transportation, other. Record the costs on the budget worksheet.
• Tally up the total cost of the trip for one person.
• Have the girls determine how many boxes of cookies they would need to sell in order to reach that
amount: Troops earn $1.00 for each box of cookies sold. For example, if the activity would cost $15 per girl,
each girl would need to sell 15 boxes of cookies in order to attend that activity.
• Juniors can visually see the cost of each activity as they choose together what to work toward.
• Juniors can also think about service.. .maybe choosing something good they want to do. Take some
proceeds and buy supplies to donate, etc. They can start thinking about their Bronze Award project too.
Practice makes perfect! Let your Juniors practice their sales script… let them have some fun too switching in
some funny words as they work toward a pitch they are comfortable with.
*Steps toward the Junior Cookie CEO badge
Create a Cookie Commercial
Girls will investigate brand identity for known products and then create their own marketing message through a
commercial for their cookie business.
*Steps toward the Junior Business Owner badge
Materials:
• Printed ads for well known products
• Tablet / Computer
• IPhone / video camera for recording
• Butcher paper / paper and markers
• Props
Directions:
• First have your Juniors browse through some fave magazines and identify ads and/or ask about their favorite products and then use YouTube to download a commercial advertising those products.
• Ask one of your Juniors or you to read the definition of advertise / advertising to all
• Lead a discussion about why Juniors like / dislike their favorite product ads
• Have your Juniors take turns adding ideas / words on what makes a good GS Cookie Program ad.. they are
beginning to build their commercial plan / script.
Ask some of these questions of your Juniors:
• Who is their target audience?
• Why should customers buy Girl Scout cookies?
• What are their goals/what will they do with the funds?
• What are some key aspects of the sale/product?
• Remember to make it catchy.
Once your Juniors have their script, know their parts, go ahead and shoot the commercial or ask Juniors to
help each other shoot. You can break this into two or more groups based on your troop size.
Keep the Fun & Skill-Building Going
• Turn to the next page and begin working on the Junior Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
• Join and share & get ideas from the GSKSMO Junior Facebook page.
• See so many more activities and games on Pinterest (Search Junior Girl Scout Cookie Program activities).
Money due date(s): ___________________________________________________________
My other deadlines: ___________________________________________________________
Check with your troop leader about how your girl can get each pin,or head to girlscoutshop.com to purchase it.
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