Count it up
This badge is all about learning how to sell Girl Scout Cookies. Some ideas to get you started are.....
- Find out how much a box of cookies costs.
- Learn all the names of the types of cookies offered. Have a taste testing snack and vote on your favorites.
- Have each girl set a goal for themselves to sell during the cookie campaign. Tie this to the group goal set in Making Choices.
- Don't make the sales effort too competitive. Make sure the girls are motivated by rewarding the group if the overall goal is made, vs measuring the results from each girl.
- If the goal is achieved, celebrate it! For example, if your troop wants to go to the movies together, establish the cost for each girl to buy a ticket and a snack, figure out what that dollar cost is, and determine how many boxes each girl should sell to generate the money needed for the movie and snack. Some girls will overachieve the goal, and some may not make it. This is why the reward should be given to the group if they achieve it together, no matter how much one girls sells.