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What is This? The following pages contain suggestions for your first three Girl Scout Junior troop meetings. The sample meetings are based on activities from The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting and the three different Leadership Girl Scout Junior Journeys. This guide is intended to get your girls acquainted with badge activities and traditions, as well as assist the troop in deciding which Leadership Journey they may want to do during their first and/or second year as Girl Scout Juniors.

What is Most Important?

Be sure to include girl/adult planning as a part of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. This partnership gives the girls an opportunity to be with people who care about what they think, who listen to what they say and have a genuine regard for them and their ideas. Girl Scout Juniors will enjoy making decisions about activities, choosing what community service projects to complete and deciding which field trips to take. All activities should be based on the needs and interests of the girls in your troop and be age appropriate. Be sure to complete your Girl Scout trainings to understand the how, what and why! Girl-Led: As it sounds, girl-led is having girls play an active part in figuring out the what, when, how and why of their activities. Encourage them to lead the planning, decision making, learning and fun as much as possible. This ensures that girls are engaged in their learning and experience leadership opportunities. Learning by Doing: Also known as, experiential learning, learning by doing not only incorporates hands-on experiences, but also includes opportunities for girls to reflect on and process what they have learned. This means that girls participate in meaningful activities and reflect on them through exploration and discussion. They then use this reflection to make choices for the future. Cooperative Learning: Through cooperative learning, girls work together toward shared goals in an atmosphere of respect that encourages the sharing of skills and knowledge. Working together in an all-girl environment also helps girls feel empowered as well as emotionally and physically safe. It also allows them to feel a sense of belonging.

What are the Girl Scout Junior Leadership Journeys?

The adult book of a Leadership Journey is a guide that walks adult volunteers through the basics of a meeting, with samples for each meeting, suggested activities and field trips, and shows how the Girl Scout Leadership Experience plays out in a troop setting. To purchase Journey books, contact the council shop nearest you. Girl Scout Juniors will earn awards through their chosen Girl Scout Journey to put on their uniforms to show the skills they have learned. They can also earn badges throughout their experience, in addition to the Journey awards from The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting.

It’s Your World— Change It! Agent of Change

It’s Your Planet—Love It! Get Moving!

It’s Your Story—Tell It! aMUSE

Additional Program Resources The following resources can be found at www.girlscoutsofwesternohio.org. Click on the link(s) for each resource listed below.

The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting Available to borrow from your regional Girl Scout Center Resource Library or for purchase at your regional Girl Scout Shop or online, click on Shop.

• Includes a handbook and steps to earning the seven Legacy, two Cookie Business, two Financial Literacy and Make Your Own badges.

• Additional Skill-Building Badge Activity Sets must be purchased to know the steps to earning those badges: Click on Shop > Journeys & Girl Guides > Skill Building Activity Sets.

• Each girl can have her own copy, or one can be purchased for the troop. Volunteer Training Required training for Girl Scouts Junior leaders. For more information, go to the website and click on Volunteer Resources > Volunteer Training. Regional Girl Scout Center Resource Libraries and Shops

• Cincinnati: 4930 Cornell Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242

• Dayton: 450 Shoup Mill Road, Dayton, OH 45415

• Lima: 1870 W. Robb Avenue, Lima, OH 45805

• Toledo: 2244 Collingwood Boulevard, Toledo, OH 43620 Annual Program Opportunities for Girls and Adults Includes council-sponsored and community-sponsored enrichment and badge opportunities for troops. Hard copies are available from your service unit or electronically online. Click on Who We Are > Publications. Service Unit Support You received information about your service unit in your welcome letter and from a staff or service unit volunteer contact before/after you were approved. These volunteers and staff are happy to support you by answering questions, meeting in-person and/or providing workshops. Locate your service unit website information, click on Volunteer Resources > Service Unit Communication. Troop Start-Up Guide Our Troop Start-Up Guide provides valuable snapshots for information such as your first parent meeting, opening a bank account, checklists, forms and kaper charts: Go to Volunteer Resources > New Volunteer Resources, scroll down to Troop Start-Up Guide. Volunteer Essentials If your question begins with “Can I do this…” or “How do I…” look for the answer in Volunteer Essentials. Important financial information is also included. Hard copies are available from your service unit or electronically online, click on Who We Are > Publications.

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Meeting #1 Girl Scout Juniors will introduce some of the Girl Scout traditions to each other. They will explore the Girl Scout Law, create a team agreement and begin brainstorming for the future. Goal:

• Girls develop a strong sense of self. Supplies:

• Girl Scout Promise and Law Poster for Business and Planning

• Kaper Chart (If creating a unique chart, bring extra materials such as poster board, stickers, scissors, etc.)

• Pens/pencils

• Markers

• Tape

• Large piece of paper for the team agreement

• The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting

• Cardstock for customized nametags

• Yarn for customized nametags

• Scissors for customized nametags

• Decorative materials (jewels, stickers, etc.) for customized nametags

• Three taper candles and one candle to light tapers for investiture ceremony

• Lighter/matches for investiture ceremony

• Membership pins for investiture ceremony (One per girl) 1. Pre-meeting (30 minutes)

• Collect any remaining registration or health forms from parents.

• Copy the Girl Scout Promise and Law on a large piece of paper and hang for girls to see.

• Assign tasks using the kaper chart (see attached). Hang it for the girls to see. Feel free to have the troop create a bigger, more reusable chart either at the next meeting or as a bonus activity during this meeting.

• Create a sample nametag for the Customized Nametags activity.

• Set up a table in the room dedicated to the investiture ceremony (in major activities). Set out the candles, lighter, matches and membership pins.

• If the troop decided at the parent meeting to have snacks, this is a good time for the girls to eat and drink.

2. Business and Planning (35 minutes)

A. Introducing the Theme

• Say something like: “Today is the first day of our journey together. Over the next few meetings, we will discover more about the Girl Scout Leadership Journeys and you will get to choose which one to use. We’ll also explore some financial literacy badge activities, and get prepared to start the Girl Scout Cookie Sale!

• Before we get started though, we have a few Girl Scout traditions to learn and brainstorming to do about what you want to do as a troop during your time as Girl Scout Juniors.’’

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B. Girl Scouts (5 minutes)

• Say something like: “Girl Scouting is all about trying new things, learning more about yourself, your community and the world around you while living by the Girl Scout Promise and Law. Have any of you ever heard of the Girl Scout Promise and Law before? We are going to learn it together.”

• Review the Girl Scout Promise line by line, as the girls repeat each line after you. Then say something like: “The Girl Scout Promise says that we will live by the Girl Scout Law.” Review the Girl Scout Law line by line.”

• Ask some questions like:

o “What is a law? o Why do you think that we, as Girl Scout members have a law that we follow?

o Who would like to share their favorite part of the Girl Scout Law?”

• Challenge the group to memorize the Girl Scout Promise by the third meeting and that you will begin each meeting this way with a girl assigned to lead, which will be posted on the kaper chart.

C. Develop a Team Agreement (15 minutes)

• Say something like: ‘‘Now we are going to come up with our own group rules and consequences to form our team agreement.

• How many of you have rules that you have to follow at school or at home?

• Did you get to make those rules? In Girl Scouts, we are going to make our own group rules so we stay safe, treat others with respect and have fun! Let’s brainstorm a list of rules and pick five to follow. Don’t forget to think of the Girl Scout Promise and Law as you develop your rules.’’

• Use a large piece of paper and markers and have a girl volunteer to record the team agreement, which will be displayed at every meeting. When girls misbehave, remind them that they created the agreement and should follow it. Have each girl sign their name to the agreement.

D. Brainstorming for the Future (15 minutes) Taken from pages 6-8 of The Junior Girls Guide to Girl Scouting

• Say something like: “Now that you are officially Girl Scouts, let’s brainstorm some activities you want to do along the journey. Does anyone know what brainstorming means?

• Brainstorming means that we are going to gather each other’s ideas, be creative, develop new ideas, and be spontaneous and not worry about whether or not the ideas go perfectly with what we’re trying to accomplish. We’ll get the ideas flowing by first talking about what we have available to us as a troop.”

• If you a purchased a copy of The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting, or borrowed a copy from your regional Girl Scout Center resource library, open it to pages 6–7 and lay it on the floor or table for the girls to see. If not, use a large piece of paper labeled with the following categories: Outdoors, Badges, Trips, Traditions and Cookies, have a girl record the brainstorm of what the girls want to do within these categories. Share the What Juniors Do handout with the girls found at the front of this packet. You can find out more about badges and Journeys at www.gsusa.org.

• Once the girls have had a chance to brainstorm, have the girls take a vote in each category for their favorite activity or idea to implement during the year.

• Say something like: “Let’s keep these goals and ideas in the back of our minds as we prepare to sell cookies and plan out the year. It is going to take money for us to implement some of these ideas. At our third meeting, we will discuss cookie goals and pull out this idea chart again to decide how we will meet our selling goals in order to earn funds for our activities.”

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3. Major Activities (45 minutes) A. Customized Nametags (20 minutes)

• Since the girls will most likely be selling cookies, they will need identification to help customers recognize them as Girl Scouts. They can use this activity to create their own unique identification that they can use for meetings and for selling door-to-door.

• Say something like: “It will be important for us to identify each other during meetings, so we’ll use the next 20 minutes to create our nametags. These nametags will also be used when you are selling cookies. Why is it important for customers to see identification? Ensure that your first name is clearly written in a dark color. What else should we write on our nametags?” (Girl Scouts, troop number, council ID, etc.)

• Spread the cardstock, scissors for cutting paper to size, yarn, markers and decorative materials out for the girls to create their nametags. Give them a 5-minute cleanup warning.

B. Human Knot (10 Minutes)

• Get the girls into a circle. Have them reach in with one hand and grab the hand of someone not next to them. Then have them reach in with their other hand to grab yet another hand. They should be all tangled up. Announce that they will now have to work together to get out of the “human knot.”

• If the girls succeed, have them try it one more time but change the rules and instruct them not to talk. Then ask something like: o “How did you communicate? What was easy or difficult about your communication with each other?

o What could you have done better to work together? o How can we use what we learned about this activity and about each other for when we do challenging activities in the future?” (Example: Sometimes some people lead, some listen or assign roles before beginning a task.)

C. Investiture Ceremony (15 Minutes)

• This will be the girls’ first time experiencing a Girl Scout Ceremony. Although it was not developed by the girls, they can use this model at future meetings to plan ceremonies such as a Court of Awards for earned badges, Journey Awards and the Cookie Activity Pin, bridging or rededication. Read more about ceremonies on pages 17–19 of The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting to help plan future ceremonies.

• If there are girls who have been Girl Scouts before joining your troop, make a special mention that this ceremony will be a rededication for them.

• Say something like: “Since this is your first time as a Girl Scout Junior, you will get to participate in a Girl Scout tradition—ceremonies. The ceremony we are having today is called an Investiture ceremony, which is a welcoming ceremony. You will receive the Girl Scout Membership Pin. This pin should also be worn as identification when selling cookies. Why do you think that is?

• Read the following poem to the girls while holding up some of the membership pins in a slow and solemn manner:

These Girl Scout trefoils in my hand Upon new members we will bestow,

But first the meaning that the trefoil bears. The spirit of our Promise we must know, Three bold leaves the trefoil wears, Threefold the Promise that it bears, To serve God and your country dear. To bring to people hope and cheer And every day in every way, The Girl Scout Law to obey.

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Then say: Please stand and signify your belief in the words of the Girl Scout Promise by repeating with me.

On my honor, I will try: To serve God and my country, To help people at all times,

And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

• Using a lit candle, recite and follow the instructions as you say something like:

Candle # 1: “This candle that I light, shall shine as a symbol that Girls Scouts are true to God and their country. Candle # 2: May the light of the second candle shine as a symbol that a Girl Scout’s greatest desire is to serve those around them. Candle # 3: May the light of the third candle shine as a symbol that Girl Scouts are true to their ideals as interpreted in the Girl Scout Law.”

• Have each member to be invested come forward. Present membership pin and give Girl Scout handshake (hold the Girl Scout sign with your right hand and shake with your left hand). See page 9 in The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting for more details.

• Then say: “This pin tells everyone that you are a Girl Scout. I know you will wear it proudly. Welcome to Girl Scouting! Girl Scouts may the three leaves of the trefoil, representing the three parts of the Promise, give you the feeling that you are part of a sisterhood that will bring you joy.”

4. Clean up and Closing (10 Minutes)

• Return and put away all materials, put trash in trash can, and put tables and chairs back

• Share one or two activities the girls will be doing at the next meeting.

• In a circle, have the girls go around and share their favorite activity they did during the meeting and why they chose that as their favorite.

• Let the girls know that singing songs is a Girl Scout tradition! Teach the friendship squeeze and sing the friendship song. See page 9 in The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting for more details about Girl Scout traditions.

Bonus Activity: I'm Thinking (10–15 minutes)

• One girl begins by thinking of an object. It can be a person, place, animal, or thing.

• When the girl is ready she announces to the other players which she has chosen. For example, she might say, “I'm thinking of an animal.”

• The other players then ask her yes or no questions about the animal until someone guesses what it is.

Facilitator Notes

� To purchase membership pins, contact your regional Girl Scout Center Store using the contact information on page 4. You can also visit www.girlscoutsofwesternohio.org/Shop/Pages/default.aspx to purchase pins online.

� Be sure to include parents in any activity that you can. This is a great way to get them as excited and involved with the girls. They can help with games, songs, activities, the Friendship Song and more. Assisting will develop confidence and leadership skills in the adults as well.

� Feel free to have girls guide the debriefing or modify questions. It’s okay to be flexible!

� Let the girls take the lead in activities whenever possible.

� Use bonus activities if you have extra time remaining.

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Friendship Squeeze and Song

The Friendship Squeeze and song is a Girl Scout Tradition. It is important to close every meeting with this tradition to signal the end of your time together as a group. Everything that you need to say to the group should be said before you lead the squeeze and song. Girls should cross their right arm over their left arm and hold hands. Once the song is sung, pass the squeeze around the circle. When every hand has been gently squeezed, count 1-2-3 and have everyone turn out of the circle while untwisting their crossed arms. Tips

• Try assigning the friendship squeeze “starter” to a girl that was well behaved during the meeting. You might try announcing this incentive during the opening.

• Let the group know that if they have not done well with their team agreement during the subsequent meetings, they may lose the privilege of doing the friendship squeeze and song for the closing. This is also an incentive to reward good behavior.

• Sing the song in repeat-style. You lead the first verse and have the girls repeat after you for each line. Try not to sing the song too slowly-keep it nice and even.

Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver,

and the other is gold. A circle is round, it has no end. That’s how long,

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Kaper Chart Examples

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Meeting #2 Girl Scout Juniors will be introduced to the three Leadership Journey themes and will have the opportunity to choose their favorite to utilize during subsequent meetings or during another part of their time as Girl Scout Juniors. Goal:

• Girls feel empowered to make a difference. Supplies:

• Girl Scout Promise and Law Poster for Business and Planning

• Kaper chart

• Pens/pencils

• Markers

• Index cards for The Real Me (Three per girl)

• Old newspapers for recycled beads (Enough to cover the workspace)

• Old magazines for recycled beads (Enough for the girls to share)

• Rulers for recycled beads (Enough for the girls to share)

• Scissors for recycled beads (Enough pairs for the girls to share)

• Glue for recycled beads (Enough for the girls to share)

• Toothpicks for recycled beads (One per girl)

• Slips of paper with roles for Take the Stage (From page 18 of this sample meeting)

• Container to hold the paper slips (plastic container, basket, paper bag) for Take the Stage 1. Pre-meeting (20–30 minutes)

• Collect any remaining forms from parents.

• Assign kaper chart tasks to girls.

• Hang the Girl Scout Promise and Law poster.

• Put nametags out for the girls.

• Prepare some example beads for the “Recycled Beads” activity.

• Cut out slips of paper with roles.

• Snack time (Optional) 2. Opening Business and Planning (10–15 minutes)

• Say something like: “Welcome back! Today we are going to start by reciting the Girl Scout Promise and Law so repeat after me. This is how we will start every meeting from now on. Be proud, stand tall—you are now a member of the premier organization for girls!”

• Review the team agreement that the girls created during the last meeting.

• Practice the quiet sign (adult raises hand).

• Review the last meeting and ask something like: “What did we discuss and do during our last meeting?

• Say something like: “Today we are going to continue to learn more about the Leadership Journeys-----you’re going to choose one as a troop to do this year or next year.’’

• If the girls are interested in learning a song, try teaching the Boom Chika Boom (found at the end of this meeting). Don’t be afraid to Google this song—you’ll find lots of great examples on the Internet to practice.

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3. Major Activities (60-70 minutes) A. The Real Me (15 minutes)

• This activity is taken from page 24 of the girl book in the Journey series, It’s Your World, Change It! Agent of Change.

• Hold up the Agent of Change girl book or adult guide if you have a copy. Say something like: “Agent of Change is about finding the power within you, the power of team and the power of community to make a change in the world. Today, we’re going to learn a little bit about the Power of One: which is within each of you. We’re going to play a game called ‘The Real Me.’

• Say something like: “Have you ever wanted to say crazy things about yourself and see if your friends believe you? Have you ever wanted to describe yourself in a way you wish you could be? To be a leader, you have to know yourself. But how well do others know you?”

• Hand out three index cards and pens/pencils/markers to each girl. Then say something like: “Think of something true, something false and something you wish for. In secret, write each item on a card with the correct ‘True, False or Wish’ labeled on the back. Keep your cards hidden and get out your best poker face.”

• When the girls have had a chance to write their answers down, gather them in a circle. Have them go around the circle and each say one thing about herself. The rest of the group has to decide whether it’s true, false or a wish.

• When the troop has finished going around and sharing, say something like: “This activity was part of the ‘Power of One’ award that you could earn while completing this Journey. It’s a badge you can wear of the front of a uniform.” Show the girls what the award looks like using page 14 in the girl book or page 10 in the adult guide.

• Then, ask something like: o “Getting back to the game, why might it be important to know your skills or wishes? o What did you like about this game? Dislike? Why? o Give a thumb up, side thumb or down thumb: learning about your individual power, team power and community power to make a change in the world sounds interesting.”

B. Recycled Beads (30 Minutes)

• This activity is taken from page 41–42 of the adult guide in the series, It’s Your Planet, Love It!, Get Moving! This Journey is about energy—the girls will take action to energize, investigate and innovate.

• Hold up the Get Moving! girl book or adult guide. Say something like: “Get Moving! is about investigating the energy inside you, the energy in all your places and spaces and the energy of getting from here to there—everywhere you go. To learn a little bit more about this, we’ll be making beads out of recycled paper as a way to symbolize all the things we might be doing to save energy if you choose this journey.”

• Have the girls spread old newspapers on the workspace where the girls will be making the beads. To make the beads, one triangle of paper is used for each bead. The triangles must be long and thin—about 11 inches (or the length of a piece of paper) and one inch wide at their base. Say something like: “Since two sides of each triangle are the same length, these are isosceles triangles.”

If you are unable to purchase or borrow a Journey, you can find lots of Journey resources at http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/ or you might try asking your service unit to see if you can borrow resources.

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• To make a bead from magazine pages, tear out a page from a magazine; then, using a ruler and pencil, mark off one-inch intervals along the bottom of the page. At the top of the page, place a mark at every half-inch. Now, place the ruler at the bottom edge of the page, angle it up to the one-inch half mark and draw a line. That is one long side of the triangle. Now, angle the ruler down to the first 1-inch mark at the bottom of the page and draw another line. That’s the other long side of the triangle. Continue across the page to form more long triangles. Then cut the triangles apart with scissors.

• To form a bead, take one of the triangles and dab glue lightly on one side of it, leaving a bit at the wide end uncoated. Wrap the paper, starting with the unglued bit, around the toothpick and roll the paper onto itself. Then push the bead off the toothpick.

• Let the beads dry for 15 minutes. Then use elastic thread or other types of cord to make a necklace or bracelet.

• When the troop has finished, say something like: “This activity was part of the ‘Energize’ award that you could earn while completing this journey. It is also a badge you can wear on the front of a uniform.” Show the girls what the award looks like using page 7 in the girl book or page 8 in the adult guide.

• Then, ask something like: o “What are some other ways we could have used recycled materials to make jewelry? o How do we use energy in our everyday life? o Give a thumb up, side thumb or down thumb: learning about energy and how to use it, save it or create it sounds interesting.”

C. Take the Stage (20 minutes)

• This activity is taken from page 31 of the adult guide in the series, It’s Your Story, Tell It!, aMUSE. This journey is about trying on any role the girls can imagine, and inspiring others to try on their dream roles, too.

• Hold up the aMUSE! girl book or adult guide. Say something like: “aMUSE! is about discovering the roles you play in your life, roles you might like to try on and inspiring others to try their dream roles. To learn a little bit more about this, we’re going to do some acting and jump into role playing by ‘taking the stage.’”

• Invite the juniors, one at a time, to choose one of the slips of paper that you cut out (using the template on page 18 of this sample meeting). The slips of paper could be in a basket, plastic container or paper bag-whatever you have around your house. After each girl chooses a role, ask her to jump into the “spotlight” and act out the role quickly, in just five to 10 seconds, as the other girls try to guess what role she’s playing. When her time is up, have the girl say who guessed her role correctly or call out what her role was. Then another girl takes the stage. Continue the game until all the girls have had one or two turns at acting out a role.

• Gather the girls together and say something like: “This activity was part of the ‘Reach Out’ award that you could earn while completing this Journey.” Show the girls what the award looks like using page 9 in the girl book or page 12 in the adult guide.

• Then, ask something like: o “What did it feel like to act out the roles? Difficult? Easy? o Did you discover some new roles you hadn’t thought about before? o Give a thumb up, side thumb or down thumb: learning about acting, role playing, stereotypes and inspiring others sounds interesting.”

4. Clean up and Closing (10–15 minutes)

• Return and put away all materials, put trash in trashcan, and put tables and chairs back.

• Make a friendship circle.

You might need to provide another recap of the Journeys before you take the vote to remind the girls of the different themes.

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• Say something like: “Now it’s time for us to take a vote about the leadership Journey we’re most interested in experiencing for some of our upcoming meeting. We are going to take a silent vote with eyes closed. Everyone put their heads down. When I say the name of the Journey you want to do, please raise your hand nice and high and keep it there until I say to put it down. Only vote once! Here we go—heads down, eyes closed, mouths shut.

o “Agent of Change”

o “Get Moving!”

o “aMUSE”

• Announce the final vote. Let the girls know that the journey will be intermixed with some of the activities they brainstormed in the first meeting, selling cookies, badge earning and their meetings both this year and next year depending on how the calendar unfolds.

• Sing the Friendship song and pass the squeeze.

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Boom Chika Boom

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Ballerina

Doctor

Book Worm

Soccer Star

Paramedic

Girl Scout

Pop Star

Secretary

Teacher

Coach

Ice Skater

Police Officer

Firefighter

Lifeguard

Loving Parent

Dog Walker

Car

Saleswoman

Chef

Construction

Worker

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Player

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Girl Scouts of Western Ohio

Meeting #3

Girl Scout Juniors will have the opportunity to brainstorm about cookie sale goals and safety tips; create a clipboard to help them with the sale and practice some business skills. Goal:

• Girls gain practical and healthy life skills. Supplies:

• Girl Scout Promise and Law poster

• Kaper chart

• Pens/pencils

• Markers

• Nametags

• 8 ½” x 11” piece of foam board or cardboard for Cookie Clipboard (One per girl)

• 1 ¼” binder clip for cookie clipboard (One per girl)

• “Clipboard Templates” for cookie clipboard (One set per girl)

• Glue sticks to mount templates for cookie clipboard

• Scissors for cutting yarn for cookie clipboard

• 14” piece of yarn to secure a pen to the clipboard for cookie clipboard (One per girl)

• Bonus Activity: “My Business Worksheet” for My Own Business (One per girl)

• Bonus Activity: White paper for My Own Product/Service (One per girl)

• Bonus Activity: Elevator Pitch worksheet for My “Pitch” (One per girl or group)

1. Pre-Meeting (15–20 minutes)

• Collect any remaining forms from parents.

• Assign kaper chart tasks to girls.

• Hang the Girl Scout Promise and Law.

• Put nametags out for girls.

• Make a cookie clipboard example.

• Snack time (Optional) 2. Opening Business and Planning (10 minutes)

• Team Agreement reminder.

• Recite the Girl Scout Promise and Law.

• Ask something like: “What did we learn last week?

• Say something like: “Today we are going to learn about the Girl Scout Cookie Program to make sure you are ready to sell cookies. Through the Cookie Program, you will get to practice running your own business. We’ll also talk about safety and brainstorm goals. We’ll be making cookie clipboards for you to use when out and about selling. We have a lot to get through today so put on your best listening ears so that we have time to do everything.”

If the troop has already had a parent/girl meeting, feel free to utilize the bonus activities or give the girls more time for the cookie clipboard.

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3. Major Activities (65 Minutes) A. Parent/Girl Meeting (20 Minutes) Girls should be present too.

• Introduce yourself and all volunteers working with the group. Thank the families for coming to the meeting. If you have a troop cookie manager, she can facilitate the parent/girl meeting.

• Explain the 5 leadership skills involved in the product sale. Say something like: “There are five goals that girls should get from participating in this group and selling cookies. During the sale, they will be learning about: o Goal Setting: By setting individual goals like the number of packages sold, recognition to earn, or a simple goal like calling 3 relatives on her own to make ‘the ask.’

o Business Ethics: By knowing important dates such as order taking, delivery and money collection. Girls also need to uphold their promise to customers to deliver the cookies since customers have already paid for them.

o Money Management: By making change for purchases, budgeting for the prizes, they would like to earn, and learning about needs versus wants.

o People Skills: By working as a team within the group, asking neighbors to purchase cookies and thanking their customers for their support.

o Decision Making: Through choosing the recognition level they want to achieve and deciding their goals around what they hope to achieve.”

• “We will be following a strict sale timeline, which is as follows:

o The cookie sale start date is: .

o The cookie order card turn-in date is: .

o The Cookie Delivery Date is: .”

• “Girls can utilize various selling methods such as going door-to-door in their neighborhood, calling friends and family and asking teachers at school. We will review safety tips later in the meeting.”

• Hand out permission slips and explain that they must be signed and returned to you today. Say something like: “Please read this document carefully. This permission slip constitutes that you are responsible for money, cookies and ensuring that customers receive products.”

• Distribute cookie order cards and explain the cost of a box of cookies is $4.

• Say something like: “Girls will be earning recognitions (aka prizes) based upon how many boxes they sell.” Have the girls look at the different recognitions they can earn. Contact your service unit cookie consultant to find out how to get a copy.

• Review parent/girl responsibility. You might ask something like:

o “What does it mean to keep this promise to customers?

o How can you uphold the Girl Scout Promise and Law as business women selling cookies?”

• Ask something like: “Do you have any questions?” If a person asks a question that you are unable to answer, let them know that you will contact your service unit cookie consultant to get an answer and will let them know via email or telephone.

B. Safety Tips (5 Minutes)

• Start by asking the girls: “What do you think are some good safety tips?” Then, highlight a few from the overview (included in this sample meeting guide) for everyone.

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C. Goal Setting (10 minutes)

• As a troop, discuss with the troop your cookie goal. Ask something like:

o “Thinking back to our first meeting when we decided some activities that we wanted to do this year and next year, how much money do you think we might need to earn in order make the activities affordable?

o Depending on how many boxes we sell, we can earn between 55–65 cents per box.” Feel free to demonstrate the math problem on a piece of newsprint for them to see. Here is our math problem. “We want to raise $ . Let’s divide that amount by 55 cents to get our base amount. That means we need to sell boxes of cookies. Now, let’s figure out an average per girl selling amount. We have girls selling cookies. Take the amount of boxes we need to sell and divide it by the amount of girls selling. That means that .”

• Using their new cookie order cards, have the girls talk with their family about setting a realistic individual cookie sale goal while keeping in mind the troop goal. Perhaps each girl wants to set a higher goal for herself in order to earn more prizes. To prompt families, you might ask some questions like:

o “How much time can I devote each day for two weeks to asking family, friends and neighbors to purchase cookies?

o Who will drive me around if I want to ask in person?

o If I go door to door, what adult will accompany me?

o How will I achieve this cookie sale goal?

o Who can I approach? (Write down a customer list.)”

• After they have brainstormed with their family member, give them some time to write down their goal on their cookie order card and fill in the contact information. Remind girls that it is important for customers to know your goals so that they feel good about supporting your sale.

D. Cookie Clipboard (30 minutes)

• Say something like: “We’re going to create a clipboard, which will add a professional touch to your order taking when you carry your order card on your cookie clipboard. It makes a great visual tool for sharing your goals.”

• To create, provide each girl with the clipboard templates and a pen or pencil.

• Encourage girls to write their goals again on the template. Invite girls to illustrate their goals with pictures in the space provided.

• Provide each girl with a piece of foam board or cardboard, a binder clip and yarn. Put out the glue for girls to utilize.

• Suggest that girls glue one template to each side of the foam board/cardboard.

• Show girls how to place the binder clip on their new clipboard, and show them how they can clip a pen to the wire piece on the binder clip using the yarn. Then, they can clip their order cards to the board and continue to decorate until they are finished.

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4. Clean up and Closing (10 minutes)

• Return and put away all materials, put trash in trash can, and put tables and chairs back.

• Make a friendship circle.

• Ask girls what they enjoyed most about the day.

• Sing the friendship song and pass the squeeze.

Bonus Activity: Name Game (10–15 minutes)

• Using a soft tossable, start the game by saying your name and your favorite cookie.

• Then, pass the tossable to another girl.

• The girl receiving the tossable should say your name, her name and her favorite cookie.

• Then, she passes the tossable to another girl who says the first name, the second name and her own name, followed by her favorite cookie.

• This should go all around until every girl has had a chance to play. The last girl will have had to remember everyone’s name!

• Encourage the group to the girls who might be trying to remember all the names.

• Once the girls have done this one time through, tell them to try it faster and see how accurately and quickly they can play.

Bonus Activity: My "Pitch” (15 minutes)

• This activity is adapted from the “Cookie CEO” badge in The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting. This is one of the Cookie Business badges.

• Based on what the girls have learned thus far in business and about cookies, pair the girls up to have them create a short “pitch” or elevator speech that they would give to someone if they had just 30 seconds. They can choose a favorite cookie or their product/service. If a girl wants to work alone, that is fine too.

• Say something like: “Today, we’ve learned about cookies, why they are important and what makes good customer service. Now we are going to learn about using a pitch. A pitch is a short, to the point way, to describe something persuasively to a potential customer. If you had to sell a box of cookies to a person in an elevator before the doors opened, what would you say to persuade that person?”

• To get the girls thinking about pitches they may have heard before, ask something like: “What are some examples of people who make a career out of selling things? (Car salesperson, fundraising professional, insurance agent, a clothing store clerk, Mary Kay representative)

• Try demonstrating a fake pitch using something in your purse or wallet. Tell the girls to time you for 30 seconds and when they say “go” make up your best pitch for a pen or Chap Stick (whatever you’ve got). Have the girls vote with their thumbs whether they thought your pitch was persuasive or not. If they did not find it persuasive, say something like: “Well, I’m going to give you extra time to practice and perfect your pitch so it can be better than mine. Let me know if you have questions.”

• Give the girls some pens and the elevator pitch worksheet in case they want to write down some ideas. Otherwise, let them have fun practicing and trying out some ideas.

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• Have any interested pairs or girls share the pitch with the group. Then, ask something like: o “Is using a pitch similar to acting? Why? Why not? o Why is a pitch important to making a sale of an item? o Was it fun to create and perform a pitch? Why? Why not? o So how might you pitch when selling cookies? Why would people want to buy Girl Scout cookies? Would people want to buy cookies in order to support troops in earning money to take trips, buy badges or buy supplies for a service learning project?”

Bonus Activity: My Own Business (15 minutes)

• This activity is adapted from Step 5 of the “Business Owner” badge in The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting. This is one of the Financial Literacy badges.

• Say something like: “Have you ever wanted to own your own business? What are some talents and skills you could use to create your own business? Are people who own businesses passionate about their work? Successful businesspeople start with a plan and concept for their idea based upon their interests, talents and education. They think about what they would need, who would use their product or come to their store, and the cost of their products or services.”

• Have helpers hand out pens and the “My Business Worksheet” to each girl. Say something like: “You will now get to create a plan for a business and product or service. The sky is the limit! Think about what you love most and how you could build a company around that passion.” If the girls feel more comfortable, they can team up to share ideas.

• Give the girls enough time to complete the brainstorming worksheet.

• Ask something like:

o “What was the best part of this activity? Why? o Were you surprised by what you created? What was it? o Can girls start businesses at your age? Would they have any challenges?”

Bonus Activity: My Own Product/Service Ad (15 minutes)

• This activity is adapted from the “Business Owner” badge in the Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting. This is one of the Financial Literacy badges.

• Based on the “My Own Business” activity, have the troop use their artistic or writing skills to design a pretend advertisement (magazine, TV, billboard, radio, banner, etc.).

• Review different advertisements the girls may have seen or heard lately. You might then say something like: “Do the ads have bright colors, words, pictures? If the ad is a radio or TV spot, what words did they use to describe their product/service? Did the announcer speak loudly, quickly or is the TV spot flashy with lots of images? Is there a famous person in the ad? Now that we’ve discussed some ads, you will get the chance to design your own ad based on your business concept.”

• Give each girl or small group time to work on this activity. They may need paper and writing utensils. When they seem finished, have each girl/small group introduce itself and show or recite their ad if they’re comfortable. Once they have shared, ask something like: o “Was it difficult or easy to create an ad? Why? o How do ads influence us? Do you want a certain toy or shoe? Why? Is it the ads you see on TV or in magazines?

o Who was your target audience? Did you change your message depending on your target audience? (i.e., for a teen product they used a popular teen artist’s song)

o Did you discover something about yourself this meeting? What was it?”

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Girl Scout Cookie Sale

What can a cookie do?

More than you see… When you buy Girl Scout cookies, the cookies you purchase will help our group, and other Girl Scouts, do

amazing things. THANK YOU!

The cookies you purchase will help us:

My name is:

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Clip your cookie order card here

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My Business Worksheet

My business name:

The product or service my business provides:

People who are most likely to be customers of my business:

Possible prices for my business’s products or services:

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My Elevator Pitch

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Where Do I Go From Here?

1. Relax! This is just the beginning of a “learning by doing” Journey. Ask for guidance and support from your service unit and Girl Scout Center staff members. You’re going to do great!

2. Purchase a copy of the Journey chosen by the troop and if

possible, The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting. You may find it helpful to establish a record system for each member to record earned recognitions and badges. Ask for dues to help cover this cost. Make sure every girl is a registered member!

3. Trust us when we say involve parents and assistant leaders from

the very beginning. Find a task for every adult: helping with the product sales (i.e.: cookies), camping certification, carpooling, First Aid/CPR, snacks... Most adult volunteers should complete our application, background check and should register as an “03–Troop Committee Member.” This experience is not meant to be done alone—gather your team!

4. Don’t forget to complete your required trainings. Sign up for a

free class or watch the interactive videos on our website. Doing this will ensure you are prepared to lead the troop successfully. If you don’t complete the trainings within six months, you’ll receive notification that your troop is ineligible.

5. Set up your troop bank account once you have two approved and registered leader/assistant leader volunteers, and a troop number. Instructions are found in the Troop Start-Up Guide (mentioned under “Additional Resources” on page 4 of this document).

6. Have the troop decide upon some simple field trips such as service unit events like World Thinking Day, a visit to the police station or a Journey activity put on by the local park district.

7. Get ready to participate in the Girl Scout Fall Product Sale and the Girl Scout Cookie Program. These are two great ways for the girls to earn money to support troop activities and to build five key skills including: goal setting, money management, decision making, people skills and business ethics.

Have fun and keep it simple your first year!