#2. Good Manners
Good manners, including being polite and always saying "please" and "thank you", are an important part of selling
Girl Scout Cookies. Decide how you and your friends can practice good manners. You might even write thank-you notes from the
whole troop.
#3. Being a Good Friend and/or Neighbor
Girl Scouts try to be helpful and kind to their friends and neighbors. Think about ways to help others through
the cookie sales. For example, set aside some of the troop money to buy boxes of cookies and give them to someone as a present,
perhaps a child who is sick or a senior citizen who is celebrating a birthday. This may also be an opportunity to spend time
with someone who would enjoy some company.
#4. Fun with Change
If you are going to buy or sell something, you need to know how to make change. Find out how much a box of Girl
Scout Cookies costs. Ask your leader or another adult to help you learn about counting money. How many pennies are in a dollar?
How many nickels and dims? How many quarters? practice buying and selling cookies and making change.
#5. Fun on the Job
There are lots of jobs connected with buying and selling cookies and other products. Find out about some of
them by taking a little trip around the neighborhood with your leader or another adult. Stop by a bakery to see how cookies
are made. Go to a supermarket to find out how products are displayed. Visit a store and ask a salesperson to explain her job.
#6. Cookie Talk
Practice what you would say to a customer (the person who is doing the buying). What would you say about the
cookies? Do you know what they taste like and how much they cost? Be able to tell the customer what your troop or group plans
to do with the money earned from the boxes of cookies that are sold and some of the other special things Girl Scouts do.
