Girl Scout Daisy Valentine’s Day Meeting

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Here is a fun and easy Girl Scout Valentine’s Day meeting that uses Conversation Hearts.

Do you need a break during cookie season and just want to meet with your troop for fun? Selling cookies is intense, no doubt about it.

Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity have a non-cookie centered meeting.

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This meeting works well for multi-level troops.
Included in this resource are:

• 10 activities using Conversation Hearts and items you already have around the house or in your leader bag
• Activities cover different areas, including movement, crafts, and science
• You select the ones that will work with your troop dynamics and the length of your meeting

Bulk Conversation Hearts

You will need a lot of conversation hearts for this meeting. You can buy them in bulk. If you have any extras, have the girls put them in cellophane bags and hand out to classmates, neighbors, and anyone else they can think of.

These come in a package of 200.

200 Plastic Valentine's Day Bags Available on Amazon

Two Pounds of Conversation Hearts

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Free Girl Scout Cookie Thank You Printables

Cookie sales are in full swing across many parts of the country. One way to jazz up your cookie boxes and bags is to use these four free Girl Scout cookie box tags to thank your customers.

There are four designs, including:

One for Daisy Scouts

One for Brownie Scouts

One for Junior Scouts

One multi-purpose tag that can be used for multi-level troops, older scouts, and any level of scouts.

How Can Leaders Use Free Girl Scout Cookie Thank You Printables?

You can go to your local Office Max or Staples and have copies run off for your troop. Hand the girls a few pages of each appropriate tag for them to glue or donut tape to the box. This is good for walkabouts.

These tags can be stapled to shopping bags if people are buying large quantities at your booth or when delivering pre-orders.

You can get your four free Girl Scout thank you printables here!

How to Earn All Four Girl Scout Daisy Cookie Badges

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Cookie season is one of the busiest times for a Girl Scout leader, especially if it is your first or even you second year participating.

You will still be running meetings alongside cookie sales, so you time to plan has been stretched even further. Many leaders want their girls to earn one of the cookie badges since it is relevant during cookie season. 

In order to save you time, I have created meeting plans for all of the badges.

Which Girl Scout Daisy Badges Do Troops Earn First?

The four badges are structured so that you earn one cookie badge and one financial badge each year. These badges are replacing the leaves that were once part of the daisy.

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Available on Teachers Pay Teachers

My First Cookie Business and My Money Choices are meant to be earned Year One.

Cookie Goal Setter and Money Explorer are meant to be earned Year Two.

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Available on Teachers Pay Teachers

Do You Have to Earn the Girl Scout Daisy Cookie Badges in Order?

There is no hard and fast rule for badge earning at any level. While the GSUSA has made it easier for leaders by assigning badges to specific years, you can mix it up if you want. The only thing I will warn is that the set of Year Two badges is a bit more advanced, so you may need to adapt the activities for kindergarteners.

What Badges Should Second Year Daisies Do if This is Their First Year Selling Girl Scout Cookies?

My suggestion to you is to earn the Year One badges for this troop of girls. It is really as basic as it gets and the girls will find the activities easier.

Can a Second Year Daisy Troop Earn All Four Badges in One Year?

While the simple answer is yes, you can earn all four in one year, I want you to think about why you want to do this. The badges are very repetitive. The reason for this is just like school...you build on what you learned the previous year. You don't start doing long division in first grade, you learn your math facts and build up to long division.

Because the activities are repetitive, you might want to "double dip", ie, use one activity for two badges. That is not allowed. Each badge has three steps and you need to do all three in order to earn the badge. Badge earning is not a competition to see who can fill up their uniform the fastest. It is a learning experience.

Girl Scout Daisy Print and Go Booth Decor

In the early 2010's, the GSUSA promoted "Blinging Your Booth", aka, decorating it to attract customers. It is one more layer to cookie sales that leaders may not have time to do.

I have just the product for you!

The Girl Scout Daisy Cookie Booth Decor Kit is all print and go. 

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What badges is your troop earning for cookie season?