Activity Description: Youth practice calculating cookie orders and making change using dice rolls.
Items Needed:
- Play money for each pair of youth
- (Optional) Print and cut out enough $1 and $5 fake money from the Pretend Shopping (at DS Brownie Girl Scouts) file for each small group
- Cookie Role-play Dice printouts (enough for each pair of youth)
- Scissors
- Clear tape
- Timer
- (Optional) Toy cash register
- (Optional) Real cash box for booth practice
Before the Meeting Starts:
- Prepare the dice. (5 min)
- Print, cut, and tape the paper dice from the Cookie Role-play Dice printout to make enough for each pair of youth to use during the role-play.
- One dice shows boxes: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4.
- One dice shows payments: $5, $10, $10, $20, $20, $20.
- Print, cut, and tape the paper dice from the Cookie Role-play Dice printout to make enough for each pair of youth to use during the role-play.
- (Optional) Set up cash register and play money. (3–4 min)
- Each group has a cashier with register and money.
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 15–25 min):
- Divide into pairs. (3 min)
- Provide each pair with the two dice they need and some play money (and optional cash register).
- Explain they will take turns being customer and scout and chose their roles for the first round which will last for 5 minutes.
- Start the first round. (5–6 min)
- “Customer” rolls first dice for number of boxes. Then the “customer” rolls second dice for payment amount.
- “Scout” adds total cost of boxes. “Scout” gives correct change from play money.
- If the initial role for money was not enough to pay for cookies, “Scout” politely asks the customer for more. “Customer” rolls a second time for payment amount.
- Continue to make more sales until the time is up.
- Rotate roles. (5–6 min)
- Youth switch roles between scout and customer and a second round begins.
- (Optional) Run additional rounds after the first two. (10–12 min)
- Switch partners and do another two rounds of the dice role-play.
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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
