2.4 Cookie Girls

Program Connections:
Key to I Can 8. Girl Guide Cookies
Cookies Rising, 1 for first years, 2 for second years
Key to I Can: Interest Badge Cookies, Yum!

Gathering Activity (in their circles) {Cookies, Yum! and Cookies Rising - Handling Money}

• Put the following list in each circle box:
  1. Take attendance and dues.
  2. Put your meeting bead onto your nametag.
  3. Play the Cookie Case Money Game (get help from an owl!)

• Play the Game: The Cookie Case Money Game.

Opening

• Circle Songs
• Brownie Song

Story: History of Girl Guide Cookies {Cookies Rising - History of Girl Guide Cookies}

• Read the Story: Girl Guide Cookie Story (http://www.girlguides.ca/cookie_story)
• after reading the story, solicit the girls to tell you what they remember about it

Goal Setting {Cookies Rising - Goal Setting and Key to I Can 8B}

• Talk about the Cookie All Stars program and setting goals to reach the prize levels.
• Talk about how we use our cookie profits in our unit.
• Also brainstorm different ways to sell cookies.

Etiquette {Cookies Rising - Etiquette and Cookies, Yum! interest badge}

• Have two large sheets of paper on the floor in the middle of the circle. One says "Bad" and the other says "Good".
• Give each girl a large card with one of the following statments on it (these are just samples - you can make up your own!):
  1. Say thank you
  2. Say please
  3. Say excuse me
  4. Walk on the grass
  5. Mumble
  6. Chewing gum
  7. Wear your uniform
  8. Wear jeans and a t-shirt
  9. Go alone
  10. Go with an adult
  11. Give the right change
  12. Walk away without giving change
  13. Pet a dog without asking permission
  14. Go into a customer's house
  15. Smile
  16. Frown
  17. Say "Hey, Lady... wanna buy some cookies???"
  18. Ask for permission to put a cookie poster up
  19. Drop cookie boxes on the ground
  20. Keep the cookie boxes clean
  21. Open a box of cookies that you haven't paid for
  22. Wear a cookie costume
  23. Walk away without thanking your customer
  24. Sing a cookie jingle
  25. Tell people how your unit uses cookie money
  26. Cross the street at a crosswalk
  27. Cross back and forth across the street to go to each house along the way
• Have each girl read her card aloud and put it onto the correct pile - "good" or "bad"

Game: Cookies Crossing {Cookies Rising - Teamwork}

• The girls must use teamwork to cross the milk lake while playing Game: Cookies Crossing.

Craft: Cookie Flowers {Cookies Rising - Creativity}

• Craft: Cookie Flowers

Games

• Have an active game ready as a time filler
• We played Stella Stella Ola and Game: This Way Valerie

Songs

• Sing cookie songs

Announcements

Brownie Closing

• Collect name tags
• Sing Now Run Along Home – song tune at http://www.dltk-bible.com/now_run_along_home.htm
• Sing the Brownie Closing Song

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