Great Troop Ideas

Earn a Girl Scout Award!

There are cookie-related awards that girls may earn.

• Brownie Girl Scouts: Cookies Count Try-It
• Junior Girl Scouts: The Cookie Connection Badge
• Cadette/Senior Girl Scouts: Cookies & Dough Interest Project
• The Girl Scout Cookie Sale Activity Pin
• New Brownie Girl Scout Try-It: Smart Cookie
• New Junior Girl Scout Badge: Cookie Biz
• Girl Scouts 11-17: Cookies & Dough

Try Cookie Share!

Cookie Share is a cookie-related service project that can be implemented at the troop or council level. Perhaps your council has selected a Cookie Share charity. If not, your troop can sell cookies to benefit their own favorite cause. Girls ask customers to buy extra boxes to be given by the troop to a designated charitable organization in the community. The extra column on their order card can be used to take “Cookie Share” orders. Try it — you will draw attention to the citizenship and service goals of Girl Scout program, and earn more money for troop activities.

Blitz a Neighborhood!

If you know of a neighborhood that hasn’t been canvassed, organize a Cookie Caravan. Enlist the help of family members and friends to decorate several vehicles with signs, streamers and banners. Load up the girls and the cookies and move `em on out! Get permission ahead of time to hang posters at stores and businesses announcing your caravan’s date and time.

Have a Walk-About

A walk-about is group door-to-door sale event. Adults monitor while several girls divide the houses on a block and ring doorbells. Then the whole group moves on to the next block. This method usually takes fewer adults than individual door-to-door sales, and is more fun for girls since they are selling with friends.

A Crowded Moment

A great place for a cookie shop is a local fun run, fair or sports event. Take a decorated van or card table and set up in a place where lots of people will pass. Of course, you will need permission from the event organizers and plenty of adult supervision for the girls.

Keep the Girl in Girl Scout Cookies

Give parents/guardians an easy way to involve their daughter in work place sales. Suggest that girls attach a note stating their goals and their picture to the order card or encourage parents/guardians to arrange for their daughters to have face-to-face contact when delivering the cookies to co-workers.

Wider Still

Since most girls only sell cookies to their family & close neighbors, help your girls broaden their horizons. Spend some time brainstorming with them about organizations their family or friends interact with — a bowling or reading group, church or sports club. Help girls strategize how to reach these groups.