Daisy Girl Scout Leaders

[solstice621]

I agree! Not unless she shows up for booth sales! She will benefit from the troop money enough without helping.... I wouldn't make it so she gets the pin and badge. Maybe the parents will order a bunch to sell at the end??

OK, thanks for the advice. Guess I was just trying to help the little girl out. And it''s always possible that the parents might sell in the end. When I ask mom about it, she just laughs it off. She and I are friends/neighbors, so I don't really want to push the issue.

I like that Facebook idea, except wouldn't that mean we as leaders would have to have every one of our parents on our own personal page? It would give them an easy way to "find" us on Facebook. I like all my moms, but I'm not sure I want them all as Facebook friends, you know?

 

[amez]

I like that Facebook idea, except wouldn't that mean we as leaders would have to have every one of our parents on our own personal page? It would give them an easy way to "find" us on Facebook. I like all my moms, but I'm not sure I want them all as Facebook friends, you know?

you should be able to start a group and just invite them to join - it wouldn't have to be through your personal page. I'm in a couple of groups, but not started one so I've not looked at what you would have to do but maybe someone else could help you out if it's not clear.

 

[Marshay]

I agree that the non-selling girl shouldn't get incentives unless she helps out at the cookie booth or starts selling something. But hopefully you talked with everyone about what needs to be done and what happens if you don't sell any.

I HATE selling things so I know my daughter is going to be one of the low sellers. We'll go around our block but I'm not sure we'll do more than that.

 

[solstice621]

Mom just called me last night and they finally sold some! Yay! I don't care how much my girls sell, I am just happy she was able to participate in the sale. We only have a few weeks left.

I know I'm late on this, but I am busy planning my World Thinking Day meeting that is scheduled for Monday night. I couldn't do it last meeting because we had our investiture ceremony then. Any ideas? I'm looking for a fun game to play or song to sing.

 

[Marshay]

Mom just called me last night and they finally sold some! Yay! I don't care how much my girls sell, I am just happy she was able to participate in the sale. We only have a few weeks left.

I know I'm late on this, but I am busy planning my World Thinking Day meeting that is scheduled for Monday night. I couldn't do it last meeting because we had our investiture ceremony then. Any ideas? I'm looking for a fun game to play or song to sing.

Either Google a country of your choice and the word children's games/songs or go to your library.

We did Ecuador since my co-leader is from there. We "flew" there in a large box, had backpacks, passports to be stamped and ate Ecuadorian food (banana, pineapple, etc) and had posterboards showing photos of the girls in Ecaudor and the building and country. We even made a Diet Coke and Mentos volcano!

Oh, and we had lots of stuffed animals around the room representing the country. We asked the girls to bring sunglasses, sun hats, winter scarf and rain boots so as we visited each part of Ecaudor, we pretended to be doing the appropriate activity.

The girls loved it!

 

[purpleorchids]

mickey50 – how fun a fashion show!

amez –One of the mom’s in my group mentioned in her daughter older troop there are two families that do not participate but then they understand they don’t get a patch and for any activity they do with that portion of the money that they will have to pay extra.

Suellen – I like the food pantry idea thank you. For my troop I did a shutterfly classroom site; besides pictures I can add a calendar, and sign up sheets where parents can edit it. Not sure if facebook has those features since I am not on it all the time.

solstice621 – I used this website to get ideas for mine http://www.makingfriends.com/world.htm

This month we earned the light purple petal. For this we used the postcard exchange we worked really well. I printed out maps that they can color for their pre activity. Then when everyone was there we started to read post cards from the other troops (last month they helped work on our post card & sent them out). I had stickers so they can put a sticker on their map for each state we received. I also asked if they knew how many hours to fly there so they can get an idea on how far away they live from us.

Then the second half we had world thinking day and learned about France. I printed off the fact sheet from the http://www.makingfriends.com/world.htm, I had a world map for them to find out where it was. At snack time I brought some of the foods that they have there – cheese (3 different kinds), croissants (was surprised a lot of girls did not care much for them) and last but not least some chocolate truffles. We also played one of their games called peneque (forgot how to spell it) but it’s where you catch the ball in a cup. We made our own version, I used small drinking cups, yarn, and aluminum foil for the ball (we wrapped the aluminum foil around one end of the string and the other end was tapped to the bottom of the cup) the girls had a lot of fun.

We also started cookie sales, well only presales. But then my cookie mom didn’t realize on ordering and that we had to order by the case, so now we have 50+ extra boxes to sell! And we don’t have a booth since we sign up about a month ahead of time. Not sure how we are going to get rid of all of them. If she done it differently we would only had 15+ to sell – we could have not order the extra case to get 1 or 2 boxes of cookies that we needed and bought it from another troop. Oh well lessoned learn I guess.

 

[Marshay]

We also started cookie sales, well only presales. But then my cookie mom didn’t realize on ordering and that we had to order by the case, so now we have 50+ extra boxes to sell! And we don’t have a booth since we sign up about a month ahead of time. Not sure how we are going to get rid of all of them. If she done it differently we would only had 15+ to sell – we could have not order the extra case to get 1 or 2 boxes of cookies that we needed and bought it from another troop. Oh well lessoned learn I guess.

Oh no!!! can you talk to your SU and see if you can add a booth somewhere even if you have to arrange it yourself? You could probably sell a LOT if you do a booth at a mall or grocery store or movie theater.

Let us know how you end up selling all those extra boxes and good luck!

 

[LisaNJ25]

We also started cookie sales, well only presales. But then my cookie mom didn’t realize on ordering and that we had to order by the case, so now we have 50+ extra boxes to sell! And we don’t have a booth since we sign up about a month ahead of time. Not sure how we are going to get rid of all of them. If she done it differently we would only had 15+ to sell – we could have not order the extra case to get 1 or 2 boxes of cookies that we needed and bought it from another troop. Oh well lessoned learn I guess.

We always have people coming back for more after the girls start passing them out. I have a suplus of 39 for my one troop and one girl has already sold 22 boxes of them.

Between my 2 girls I ordered around 50 boxes. We are going to go door to door with them.

Cookies come in tomorrow.. I get to go help sort out 13,000 boxes for my su and bring 2000 to my house and than hope the parents of my 2 troops all show up tomorrow afternoon to pick theirs up.

 

[Marshay]

Great news for my troop! We have a Girl Scout Mom and her daughter who just moved to our school district. They will continue with their current troop but plan to join our troop next year ... and the mom wants to be the Cookie Mom!! Woo Hoo!!

 

[kelann7]

Cookies, Cookies, everywhere! We had our cookie drop on Wednesday. I picked up over 1600 boxes of cookies that our troop sold in pre orders! They sold more than I ever imagined. I have 14 girls. One of them, my co-leader's daughter - sold 500!

Me and me co-leader picked up the cookies on Wednesday and sorted them. She took her 500 and left. I told all of the parents to come pick up cookies that afternoon when they picked up their child from school. I set up at my mother's house - she lives one street from the school. This worked great except that 2 parents didn't show up. They forgot. We have a meeting today, so I'm bringing their orders to the meeting.

I leave tomorrow - Saturday for a week at Disney World - I can't wait! But I want to get rid of all of these cookies before I leave. It has been a busy week with cookies and planning for this meeting today and packing for our trip.

We aren't doing booth sales - mainly because I'm going to be out of town in Disney for the first 2 weekends of booth sales. But I also was told that Daisies couldn't do booth sales except at school or church. We might do one next year at church.

Kelly

 

[Familyof4lovesDW]

We also picked up our cookies Wednesday. We had over 1100 boxes for our 7 girls. A little over 200 were for our first 2 cookie booths and the girls sold over half of them already, before our first cookie booth. I picked up 8 more cases today.

We have our first booth Sunday at the mall and have been told we should do really well. We have five booths total. We have to have at least 2 adults incase a girl has to go to the bathroom, etc.

Did anyone do the activities for the cookie pin? We are almost done with ours.

What do your girls plan to do with their cookie money? Our girls want to go to the zoo, a local place similar to chuckie cheese, build a bear and bowling. We had the girls vote alone to make sure they would pick what they wanted, not what their friends picked.

 

[TinaLala]

What do your girls plan to do with their cookie money? Our girls want to go to the zoo, a local place similar to chuckie cheese, build a bear and bowling. We had the girls vote alone to make sure they would pick what they wanted, not what their friends picked.

We split the troop up into their patrols and then have them pick their top 3 choices. They then write pros and cons for each activity and as a patrol they vote for their favorite one. Then each patrol announces their top pick and as a troop we vote on the final ones. We thought this would be good for them to work together on decision making.

Some troops go camping, go bowling, roller skating, build a bear, monster golf, the zoo.

 

[Stacey012345]

We also started cookie sales, well only presales. But then my cookie mom didn’t realize on ordering and that we had to order by the case, so now we have 50+ extra boxes to sell! And we don’t have a booth since we sign up about a month ahead of time. Not sure how we are going to get rid of all of them. If she done it differently we would only had 15+ to sell – we could have not order the extra case to get 1 or 2 boxes of cookies that we needed and bought it from another troop. Oh well lessoned learn I guess.

Our troop had a surplus of 62 boxes. 27 of those went to filling Gift Of Caring orders. The other 35 were sorted among the girls and each of the 10 girls received either 3 or 4 extra boxes to sell of with their deliveries. In order to make it fair in terms of who got 3 and who got 4, since there were 10 girls but over 30 boxes, I went in order of # of boxes sold so the top 5 sellers got 4 boxes and the bottom 5 sellers got 3 boxes and that took care of all 35. Not so overwhelming when faced with 3 or 4 boxes to sell as opposed to 35.

We sold 1,056 with pre-order and gift of caring and a total of 1,092 including the surplus without having to do a booth sale. As 1st year K aged Daisies, I was very happy with this and did not really want the responsibility of a booth sale, so the troop did great overall.

I am Troop Leader and was also responsible for cookies, didn't have a cookie Mom and my assistant leader couldn't help. I did get a parent volunteer to help pick up the 91 cases and another parent volunteered to help me sort them, and I gave one day for all pick-ups by troop parents which worked out well and everyone came. Besides it taking up a whole room in my house for a day or two, it was relatively painless even though a large undertaking.

In terms of picking what they do with the money, I gave the troop parents 5 choices to narrow down from and then we presented the girls with 2 choices to pick from based on the parent replies....Build-A-Bear or Painting Pottery. The girls each gave their vote (I did eyes closed and head down on table, raise hands for which you choose...that way they couldn't see what their friends were picking and voted for what they wanted) and they picked Build-A-Bear so that's going to be our cookie reward event and end of year celebration where we conclude for the summer. I'm sure we'll do other trips/outings with the cookie money between now and the fall, but that is the main one they picked. We also selected our service goal as planting a community garden. We are working on getting everything together to do that in April and that will also help them earn the 2nd part of their Flower Garden Journey patch.



I just love popping in to this thread, I find it helpful to hear what others are doing and get some great ideas here, thanks!

 

[skw444]

Cookie season is officially over for our troop. Today, I write the check to Council for what our troop owes. For first year Daisies, I think we did pretty good. We sold 1992 boxes of cookies for a total profit of $1295. We plan on using this money to pay for Spring Registration, all our service unit sponsored events next year (there are 6 events) and a year end outing for this year still yet to be decided on by the girls.

 

[LisaNJ25]

We also picked up our cookies Wednesday. We had over 1100 boxes for our 7 girls. A little over 200 were for our first 2 cookie booths and the girls sold over half of them already, before our first cookie booth. I picked up 8 more cases today.

We have our first booth Sunday at the mall and have been told we should do really well. We have five booths total. We have to have at least 2 adults incase a girl has to go to the bathroom, etc.

Did anyone do the activities for the cookie pin? We are almost done with ours.

What do your girls plan to do with their cookie money? Our girls want to go to the zoo, a local place similar to chuckie cheese, build a bear and bowling. We had the girls vote alone to make sure they would pick what they wanted, not what their friends picked.

We have a few trips planned for the spring. My girls are also moving up to brownies and I cover part of their vests and books. Usually 50%. I also carry over a decent amount for september. I wont blow everything on one or two trips.

We still have till the end of the month and one more boot sale to do. So far my troop of 6 has sold 750 boxes. Not over the top but not horrible either.

My Cadette troop of 7 is at 1550 boxes.

I am just frustrated today, I am cookie mom for both troops and I still have people dropping off cookie money and some who are ignoring me. My deadline was yesterday since its due to the su tomorrow and I need to get checks in to the bank and clear.

 

[Familyof4lovesDW]

We have a few trips planned for the spring. My girls are also moving up to brownies and I cover part of their vests and books. Usually 50%. I also carry over a decent amount for september. I wont blow everything on one or two trips.

We still have till the end of the month and one more boot sale to do. So far my troop of 6 has sold 750 boxes. Not over the top but not horrible either.

My Cadette troop of 7 is at 1550 boxes.

I am just frustrated today, I am cookie mom for both troops and I still have people dropping off cookie money and some who are ignoring me. My deadline was yesterday since its due to the su tomorrow and I need to get checks in to the bank and clear.

I know in our area when a parent does not pay, you just submit the paper they signed with your payment and council will take care of them. We are doing our last booth next weekend so we have asked for all money about a week before it is due.

We are going to keep $100-150 for next year. Most of our girls are moving, including the other leader and her daughter (who sold the most) so she wants the girls this year to benefit, which in a way I do understand, but if she was not moving she might want to save more. As long as I have money to start next year, we should be fine.

How much of the cookie money do you spend this year and keep for the following year?

I like the idea of buying the brownie vest with it. I think I will do that next year for the girls that sell and stay next year.

 

[TinaLala]

I have to say when it comes to cookies - what the heck is wrong with parents? They know the deadlines and for some reason they always seem to ignore it. Don't they realize that the troop is responsible for that money? and in the end the parents? I've seen councils take parents to small claims court for cookie money!

Ok I'm totally down with the let the kids vote and then let's do it. However I'm hear other leaders have a 'process' of having the troop decide what they're doing. Anyone know what this 'process' might be?

 

[kelann7]

Anyone planning an end of year award ceremony? I would like to give our perfect attendance awards and also Cookie All Star patches for my top 3 sellers. What else can I give? I would like for each girl to get at least one patch. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Kelly

 

[Marshay]

Anyone planning an end of year award ceremony? I would like to give our perfect attendance awards and also Cookie All Star patches for my top 3 sellers. What else can I give? I would like for each girl to get at least one patch. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Kelly

how about best: helpers, singers, artists, readers, friend, smile, hugs, hellos, etc. Think about each girl and what they did that you remember the most.

We are ending with an Ice Cream Party and will give the girls a CD of all the pics taken this year + scrapbook...I think we'll do a small awards ceremony, too.

 

[LisaNJ25]

I know in our area when a parent does not pay, you just submit the paper they signed with your payment and council will take care of them. We are doing our last booth next weekend so we have asked for all money about a week before it is due.

We are going to keep $100-150 for next year. Most of our girls are moving, including the other leader and her daughter (who sold the most) so she wants the girls this year to benefit, which in a way I do understand, but if she was not moving she might want to save more. As long as I have money to start next year, we should be fine.

How much of the cookie money do you spend this year and keep for the following year?

I like the idea of buying the brownie vest with it. I think I will do that next year for the girls that sell and stay next year.

Thankfully everyone ended up paying after chasing them down. Personally I had to lay out way to much for my daughters sales and I am still chasing down $120 worth.

I will probably carry over $300 if not more. We have made $600 and still have 1 booth sale left.

I am still trying to decide if I will give them their vests in June at our bridging ceremony. I cant get the books until late summer until the new ones come out. than my council has a program in Sept when you get 10% back on uniform and troop purchases to be used at the council shop. So I am thinking about waiting till september and buying everything than.

So right now I am at the point where I am not sure yet what to do for the next few meeting. We have our World Thinking Day event next week, service unit camping in June.. than I have 5 meeting until our last one. I was thinking about a journey book but dont want to rush through it. We also have to meet with a brownie troop in May to work on bridging requirements.

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