Activity Description: Youths use a sample community map to learn where cookie sales are allowed or not allowed.
Items Needed:
- Sample Community Map
- Drawing and coloring supplies
- (Optional) Stickers, stars, or stamps
- (Optional) Tape to hang finished maps
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 20–25 min):
- Review the map. (3–4 min)
- Youth look at the sample community map together. Identify places like houses, grocery stores, parks, schools, and libraries.
- Decorate the map. (4–5 min)
- Youth add colors and simple drawings to make locations easy to see.
- Mark allowed sales locations. (6–8 min)
- Youth circle places where cookie sales can happen.
- Clearly determine if it is a location you can only sell to with permission, such as approved grocery stores, public parks, libraries, and shopping centers.
- Star or make a double circle for areas like their neighborhood, school (check your ISD rules on selling on school property), or their parent’s work place they could sell to customers on their own.
- (Optional) Add a sticker or star to the best booth spots.
- Mark not allowed locations. (4–5 min)
- Youth draw an X on places where selling is not allowed, such as inside libraries or at bleachers. Discuss why permission and rules matter.
- Create a simple key. (3–4 min)
- Youth add a small key: circle = allowed with permission, double circle = sell on our own, X = not allowed.
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Info Needed for Customer Practice: Learn what to say to customers and practice it.
- Fulfills Step 3 of GSUSA Daisy My First Cookie Business badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 5 of GSUSA Brownie My Cookie Customers badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 5 of GSUSA Junior Cookie Collaborator badge requirements.
Info Needed for Customer Sharing: Share the reason for the cookie sale with customers.
- Fulfills Step 3 of GSUSA Daisy Cookie Goal Setter badge requirements.
Info Needed for Pitches: Make a sales pitch and practice, create a video, or write it down and get feedback (Ambassador needs feedback from 3 mentors).
- Fulfills Step 3 of GSUSA Daisy My First Cookie Business badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 5 of GSUSA Junior My Cookie Team badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 4 of GSUSA Senior Cookie Boss badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 4 of GSUSA Ambassador My Cookie Business Resume badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Ambassador Cookie Influencer badge requirements.
Info Needed for Customer Reach: Make a list of potential customers and ways to reach them (i.e. a social media campaign).
- Fulfills Step 3 of GSUSA Brownie My Cookie Customers badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 4 of GSUSA Junior Cookie Collaborator badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 5 of GSUSA Cadette Cookie Innovator badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 4 of GSUSA Senior My Cookie Network badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 5 of GSUSA Senior Cookie Boss badge requirements.
This activity does not meet any Scouting America Requirements
