Girl Scout Cookie Program Tips, Tricks & Activities for Brownies Troop Leader / Cookie Manager Getting Ready Steps • Sign up for a Cookie Rookie or Refresher 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 Brownies are building their cookie business savvy! We want them to continue working on their 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 Brownies
Troop Leader / Cookie Manager Getting Ready Steps
• Sign up for a Cookie Rookie or Refresher 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
Brownies are building their cookie business savvy! We want them to continue working on their 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 Brownie badges and the Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin. For the pin, do
a couple steps in troop and then encourage parents / caregivers and their Brownie 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 Brownie Money Manager badge.
Materials:
• Look at www.gsksmo.org/community (fun community partner programs)
• Look at other local opportunities / activities girls would be interested in (Build-a-Bear), etc.
• 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.
• With the help of an adult, 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.
• As a troop, Brownies can visually see the cost of each activity and then can decide which one to work toward. Adults can always say… here’s our initial goal, but if we do this, we can choose this. Sometimes
the first thing said is an activity super big. So this activity helps them see the differences and feel
achievement if a lower cost objective is met. That’s a win!
• Brownies can also think about service...maybe choosing something good they want to do. Take some
proceeds and buy pet supplies for a local shelter, etc.
• With the remainder of the time, Brownies can fill in the troop and even an individual goal thermometer.
Know Your Cookie Relay
This game will help the girls learn more about the cookies and see which cookie they know the best.
*Steps toward the Brownie Meet my Customers badge
Materials:
• Table(s)
• Cookie sheets (two per group of 3-5 girls)
• Spatulas (one per group of 3-5 girls)
• Hot pads (one per group of 3-5 girls)
• Cookie Jars (one per group of 3-5 girls)
• Know Your Cookie information – see below
• Cookies made out of cardboard or foam board with picture of the kind of cookie glued on top; 3 of each
type of cookie = 1 set, 1 set for each group of 3-5 girls. Visit: www.abcbakers.com to get the cookie artwork
needed.
• At least one volunteer per group of 3-5 girls
Directions:
• Prior to the event make your relay set up. You will need 2 tables per group of 3-5 girls. (If tables are tight, one table per group would work with the cookie jar on the floor.)
• Set up the space so that you have 2 tables facing one another in rows of how many groups you will need.
On one end, you will have the cookie jars. On the other end, you will have the cookie sheets with the
cookies.
• With the girls on the floor, explain the game.
• Split the girls into teams of 3-5 girls Each team will have a baking sheet, spatula, and hot pad.
• Use the side of the table as the starting line. Have each team of girls form a line on their side of the table.
• The first girl steps up to the front of the table, picks up the hot pad, cookie sheet, and spatula.
• The volunteer reads one fact from the “Know Your Cookie” information. If the girl knows which cookie the
fact is referring to, she uses her spatula to pick up 3 of those cookies from the cookie sheet on the
opposite table. Otherwise, she waits for the next fact about the same cookie. 1st clue = 3 cookies, 2nd clue
= 2 cookies, 3rd clue = 1 cookie.
• Once the cookies are on the baking sheet, she walks quickly over to the cookie jar and shows her choice to
the volunteer helping her group. If the cookie choice is right, the volunteer will tell her to place the cookies
in the jar using the spatula. If the cookie choice is wrong, the girl must quickly walk back to the table, put
the cookies back on the cookie sheet, and then go get another clue from the volunteer.
• After putting the cookies in the cookie jar, the girl walks quickly back to the table and hands the hot pad,
spatula, and cookie sheet to the next girl (making sure the transaction takes place behind the table).
• You may have multiple groups going at the same time.
• Once the teams have finished all the types of cookies, everyone will count how many cookies they have in
• Optional: stickers, cookie clip art, gems, or other embellishments to decorate the signs
• Tape
• Glue
• Sign stakes or paint sticks
Directions:
• Lead a short discussion on why it is important to tell the customers what the money is going towards and what their goals are.
• Advertising your product is an important part of marketing. Signs are a great tool to advertise your business and tell people about your product and program.
• Invite girls to share ideas about messages they want to include on their signs. Answers may include, but are not limited to: Information about their product- kinds of cookies, price, Troop or personal goals, What
you plan to do with the cookie proceeds, Asking the customer to help them make a difference in the
community
• Provide each girl with poster board or box, markers, and any other decorating supplies they might need.
• Invite the girls to create.
Keep the Fun & Skill-Building Going
• Turn to the next page and begin working on the Brownie Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
• Join and share & get ideas from the GSKSMO Brownie Facebook page.
• See so many more activities and games on Pinterest (Search Brownie Girl Scout Cookie Program
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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