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Girl Scout Cookie Program Tips, Tricks & Activities for Juniors · 2019-11-18 · Girl Scout Cookie...
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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.
• With the remainder of the time, Juniors should work on their troop thermometer and maybe their
individual ones too.
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 Junior Customer Insights 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
their jars.
Know the Cookies for the Relay
Shortbread Cookies
• This cookie has been around the longest.
• This cookie comes in a blue box.
• This cookie has a buttery taste and represents Girl Scouts with a Trefoil baked right on the cookie.
Thin Mints
• This cookie is the top-selling Girl Scout cookie in America.
• This cookie comes in a green box.
• This cookie has a burst of peppermint and a chocolaty coating.
Thanks-A-lots
• This cookie speaks in 5 different languages.
• This cookie comes in turquoise packaging.
• This cookie is a shortbread cookie dipped in rich fudge and this cookie is being retired after this season.
Caramel Delites
• This cookie is the second best-selling Girl Scout cookie.
• This cookie comes in a purple box.
• This cookie is the only striped Girl Scout Cookie and is topped with caramel and toasted coconut.
Lemonades
• This cookie is a shortbread cookie with a refreshing citrus flavored icing.
• This cookie comes in yellow packaging.
• This cookie is imprinted with the citrus that is contained in its flavor.
Peanut Butter Patties
• This cookie is the third best-selling Girl Scout Cookie.
• This cookie comes in a red box.
• This cookie is a crispy vanilla cookie layered in peanut butter and dipped in chocolate.
Peanut Butter Sandwiches
• This cookie has two oatmeal cookies.
• This cookie comes in a golden colored box.
• This cookie has peanut butter between the two oatmeal cookies.
S’mores
• This cookie celebrates a favorite Girl Scout campfire tradition.
• This cookie comes in a brown package.
• This cookie has a graham cracker dipped in crème icing and topped with chocolate.
Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
• This cookie is the newest Girl Scout cookie but not one every Girl Scout sells.
• This cookie is gluten-free.
• This cookie is a classic with caramel and chocolate chips + a little sea salt.
Mock Booth Sale / Sales Practice
Girls learn how to interact with customers while learning the basics of money management and being a
successful business woman.
*Steps toward the Junior Cookie CEO & Customer Insights badges
Materials:
• Table Set Up Like a Booth / Sales Table
• Cash Box
• Booth posters displayed that show cookies / cost) (Gluten Free version)
• Have G.I.R.L. play money ready to go.
• Prior to the practice, have Girl Scouts create posters. Draw what they are excited sell / what they want to
do with proceeds / why customers should buy GS Cookies
• Wallet / purse
• Empty GS Cookie boxes or mock boxes
• Paper
• Markers / crayons
Directions:
• First have Juniors work on their booth posters, talking through what they want customers to know about
their cookie business (why they love selling cookies, what they are doing with the proceeds, what’s their
favorite cookie)
• Hang the posters and then let Girl Scouts take turns asking each other to buy cookies
• This experience will allow them to get comfortable with the ask
Mad Libs
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).
gsksmo.org/cookies | [email protected]
Check off the boxes as you complete each activity with your family—
you can earn a different pin each year! Adults, look for the throughout
for special ways you can help!
FIVE STEPS TO EARN YOUR
Junior Pins
1. Strategize your sales. Talk with your family to figure out a
realistic goal of how many cookies you think you can sell, then set a
second goal focused on your sales method—like how many packages
you’ll sell digitally or how many customers you can upsell.
My troop goal is __________ packages so we can _________________________
________________________________________________________________________.
My personal goal is _________ packages, and my strategic goal is __________.
2. Learn from the past. If you’ve sold Girl Scout Cookies
before, think about what worked and what could have gone better. If this
is your first time, ask a Girl Scout who knows the ropes to tell you about
her experience. Make an “action plan” that includes everything you’ll
need to run your cookie business.
The path to success.
Goal setting isn’t only about
numbers—it can also be about
sales strategy. Help her think
through all the different ways
she could make a sale, then
create a goal for one of them.
Step back. Girls feel the greatest
sense of pride when they have
ownership over their sales and get to
flex their decision-making skills. So feel free to
give feedback, but make sure you let her come
up with the plan herself.
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_______________ packages
_______________ packages
_______________ packages
_______________ packages
_______________ packages
_______________ packages
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
4. Fine-tune your pitch. Improve your
pitch using customer feedback and test it with your
family. If your troop has not earned the Customer
Insights badge, interview or survey past and potential
customers about their cookie-buying habits.
5. Know your product. Not every cookie
is right for every customer! Learn which ones are
gluten-free, vegan, and nut-free for those with
allergies and dietary restrictions.
3. Run the show. Although your family is responsible
for keeping the money you collect safe, you’re responsible for
everything else—from counting money and giving change to
managing your cookie inventory and meeting deadlines. Record
the dates here, then track them on a family calendar and let
your family know what specific help you need.
Spark her curiosity. Knowing her audience
is a major people skill. Give her more insight about
her customers by having her use a free survey tool
online or creating a poll to post on social media.
Truth in advertising. Quiz her cookie
knowledge! By having the facts and being
transparent about her products, your girl is learning
the foundation of business ethics.
My Cookie Business Dates
Girl Scout Cookie season starts on: ____________________________________________
Cookie order deadline: _________________________________________________________
Cookie pick-up: _______________________________________________________________
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.
The GIRL SCOUTS® name, mark, and all associated trademarks and logotypes, including the Trefoil Design, G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™, and Cookie Pro™ are owned by Girl Scouts of the USA.
Check in with her. She’s ready to
take charge of her business! Help her
think about how she’ll track her orders,
double check her math, and handle
money (with adult supervision). You’re
there to advise and support, but this is
her time to shine.