With your Girl Scout Friends, set some goals for things you would like to do. It could be having a holiday party, going on a picnic, having enough money to go on a special trip, or having money for a service project. Discuss with your troop, how much would it cost? How will you get there? Who will help? How will the cookie sale help the girls reach their goal?

        Tip: Use the Chart for setting goals from Little Brownies Bakers website, or what you receive from cookie training in December. Encourage the girls to set a goal for the troop, have them figure out how much it will cost per person, how much for the troop, how much for the chaperones that will be needed for the trip, and materials needed to buy for it. Mark the chart, each time the girls turn in how many boxes of cookies they have sold mark it on the chart for them to see.

Individual Girl Cookie Goal Poster

        Make thank you cards for your customers.

        Tip: Just like a business if you want more business you give out business cards and acknowledge your customers. During a meeting sit down with the girls and design a business card or thank you note to give to customers. Don't forget to include the cookie mom's or responsible parties phone number on card or flyer to encourage more orders. When the girls deliver there orders after February 15 have them give out the Thank you cards.    Also available in pdf Thank You Cards

       Girl Scouts try to be helpful and kind to their friends and neighbors.

        Tip: During your cookie goal planning have the girls come up with an amount of money or boxes of cookies to give away. Troops have been known to give 10% of their profits to a charity, or have given boxes of cookies to a homeless school, or women's shelter. The girls could even wrap and give them to a sick friend, or to senior citizen who is celebrating a birthday. Maybe take some cookies to share with some senior citizens in March and visit for awhile. In Listening to the Past Try-it requirement number 1, asks you to share some of their stories.

        Practice buying and selling cookies and making change.

        Tip: Use real money or fake. Give each girl no particular amount in different kinds of currency (coins or paper) in different amounts. Have the girls practice buying and selling cookies before the sale and make sure they are giving the proper change back.

        Tip: This is a great time to put in a field trip. Call a grocery store bakery and schedule a tour - learn about how they make cookies.

        Practice what you would say to a customer

        Tip: Do a mock cookie sale. Have the girls take turns selling cookies. Have parents, troop members, leaders play different kinds of customers they will run into. Don't forget to have them ask questions you may hear from potential customers.

Cookie Box Scrapbook