Activity Description: Youth make a notebook to learn and share cookie names, flavors, and prices.
Items Needed:
- Girl Scout Cookie boxes, or any cardboard
- Plain paper
- Binder clips
- Scissors
- Writing and coloring supplies
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 20-40 min):
- Prepare notebook parts. (5-10 min)
- Cut cardboard from cookie boxes or other cardboard for the front and back covers.
- Gather plain paper for the inside pages.
- Assemble the notebook. (5-10 min)
- Place paper between the cardboard covers.
- Clip the notebook together with binder clips.
- (Optional) Youth may bind it differently or cut cookie-shaped pages. See step-by-step tutorials listed under the activity instructions.
- Add cookie facts. (10-15 min)
- Use order cards or Digital Cookie/Smart Cookies with an adult to find cookie names, flavors, and prices.
- Write the information on the notebook pages.
- Decorate with drawings or coloring supplies.
- (Optional) Share the notebook. (5-10 min)
- Youth display their notebook at a cookie booth. Use it to share cookie facts with customers.
Step-by-Step Tutorials:
- Alternate Instructions: CAGW: How to Make an Upcycled Notebook
- Alternate Instructions: thermoweb: Cookie Box Notebooks
- Video: PaperKraftD: Make Notebooks from Girl Scout Cookie Boxes
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Info Needed for Cookie Facts: Learn the flavors and how much a box costs.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Daisy My First Cookie Business badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Brownie My Cookie Customers badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Brownie Cookie Decision Maker badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Junior My Cookie Team badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Junior Cookie Collaborator badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Cadette My Cookie Venture badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Cadette Cookie Innovator badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Senior My Cookie Network badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Senior Cookie Boss badge requirements.
Info Needed for Money Facts: Practice making change.
- Fulfills Step 4 of GSUSA Brownie My Cookie Customers badge requirements.
Info Needed for Research Facts: Research one aspect of cookies (i.e. digital marketing, cookie taste testing, market research).
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Cadette Cookie Market Researcher badge requirements.
This activity does not meet any Scouting America Requirements
