Category: Topic: G.S. Cookies – Plans
Starting with Brownies, every Cookie Business badge includes some form of planning. Brownies begin by assigning team roles, while older scouts create sales strategies and full marketing campaigns. Planning may include booth teamwork, spirit elements like costumes or songs, detailed sales plans with feedback, and scheduled marketing efforts.
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G.S. Cookies – Using Cookie Recipes
Youth choose and make a recipe that uses Girl Scout Cookies as an ingredient.
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G.S. Cookies – Cookie Display Case
Youth choose a cookie display case design and help prepare it for use at cookie booths.
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G.S. Cookies – Team Building Game
Youth play a team building game and connect what they learn to communication in their cookie business.
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G.S. Cookies – Interview Older Scout
Youth learn from older scouts about cookie sales responsibilities and how to take charge of their cookie business.
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G.S. Cookies – Cookie Fact Chain
Youth work to create a cookie fact chain showing cookie flavors, facts, and costs.
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G.S. Cookies – Team Trading Cards
Youth design cookie team trading cards to show their strengths and skills.
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G.S. Cookies – Cookie Songs
Youth create their own cookie‑themed song to share with the option of turning them into a marketing campaign.
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G.S. Cookies – Make a Cookie Costume
Youth create cookie costumes from sturdy cardboard to wear themselves or to dress up stuffed animals.
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G.S. Cookies – Theme a Booth
Youth design and create decorations for their cookie booth using a chosen theme.
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G.S. Cookies – Team Words
Youth play a team-building game by forming letters with their hands or bodies to spell words related to their cookie business.
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G.S. Cookies – Cookie Seller Team Roles
Youth explore different cookie business team roles and practice them through creative role-play.
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G.S. Cookies – Goals in a Bottle
Youth make “goals in a bottle” to track their goal with cookie money.
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G.S. Cookies – Donation Poster
Youth make a donation poster to show how they will use cookie money to give back to the community.
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G.S. Cookies – Cookie Necklace
Youth create a cookie necklace by cutting out cookie images and labeling cookie facts.
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G.S. Cookies – Cookie Lanyard
Youth create a cookie lanyard or necklace to help them learn and remember cookie names and key facts with an option for writing a simple pitch for door-to-door sales.
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G.S. Cookies – Practice Cookie Booth
Youths practice setting up a booth, handling money, and making change at the pretend cookie booth.
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G.S. Cookies – Cookie Booth Menu
Youths create a menu for customers to use at a cookie booth, listing cookie flavors and package costs.
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G.S. Cookies – Plan to Sell to Businesses
Youths learn how to approach businesses for cookie sales and practice building professional partnerships with an option to add social responsibility as a feature.
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G.S. Cookies – Social Media Campaign
Youths plan a social media campaign using cookie images and scheduled posts.
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G.S. Cookies – Mascot Goal Posters
Youths set a troop cookie goal and draw the GSUSA mascot to show how cookie money will be used.
