Help her sell One More Box

Cookie customers across the country are celebrating National Girl Scout Day by pledging to buy One More Box. Customers want to help girls reach their goals!   Continue Reading →

Let us know how we’re doing!

We’d love to hear from you! This year’s volunteer survey is up and ready for your feedback. By taking a few moments to fill out the survey, you make a world of difference by helping us create better resources for future cookie seasons. Continue Reading →

Pledge your support!

The public wants to help girls as they pursue their inspiring goals and worthwhile community projects. As part of a national social media campaign, customers are pledging to buy One More Box. Continue Reading →

Table this message!

Remind customers of their opportunity to buy One More Box. They’ll recognize the images and messages on this table tent from the national social media campaign. Continue Reading →

Make sales sing

Need help selling One More Box? These Girl Scouts in Dallas came up with a great cookie song they perform at booth sales. Continue Reading →

Cookie Concessions Box

Girls can create this unique “walking cookie store” to carry their cookies with them when they’re on-the-go. They’ll find that customers love buying Girl Scout cookies almost anywhere — making it easy to sell One More Box. Continue Reading →

Go on the road

Taking cookies to the customers is a great way to sell One More Box. Teen Girl Scouts can really go high with their goals this Cookie Season using a mobile cookie booth. Continue Reading →

Offer bundles of bliss

Bundled cookie boxes attract customers and encourage them to buy One More Box. Continue Reading →

Walking posters get sales moving

Put a creative twist on booth posters by making them wearable! Sandwich-board advertising signs are fun to make and can help girls remind customers to buy One More Box. Continue Reading →

Perfect for taking orders of One More Box

Did you know? Even after girls turn in their order cards, they can continue taking orders in most councils. Continue Reading →

Cookie booth marketing 101

With booth sales, selling One More Box to each customer is a snap. Customers love to buy cookies when they can eat them right away! Continue Reading →

Would you like to buy One More Box for our Gift of Caring project?

There may be no better way to encourage customers to buy One More Box than with a Gift of Caring donation program. Customers buy cookies that Girl Scouts deliver to chosen community groups. Continue Reading →

Ready-to-go art gets customers ready to buy

Girls will have loads of creative fun using our vast library of free cookie clip art to sell One More Box. Continue Reading →

Help girls tap the power of One

A little extra effort can have a big impact. That’s the idea behind the One More Box campaign. Continue Reading →

Something special for customers who buy One More Box

No one can resist earning a free prize! Motivate customers to buy One More Box with giveaways like recipe cards, stickers or items girls make. Continue Reading →

Text-a-thon! No one does it better than teens

Teens and texting go hand-in-hand. Encourage teen Girl Scouts to gather and hold a text-a-thon to tell everyone they know where their cookie booths will be located and ask them to buy One More Box. Continue Reading →

Just like takeout: a drive-thru cookie booth!

Customers are more likely to buy One More Box if the booth sale is convenient. Would girls like to set up a drive-through cookie booth at a busy location like Telayne and her friends? Continue Reading →

Learn the Sleepover dance!

The “Samoas Shout” dance was created by girls and for girls — especially for the National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover.

In the sleepover finale, everyone across the country will be encouraged to get on their feet and boogie along. Help girls get ready! Share this instructional video with them and watch them create their own moves. Print a copy of the lyrics so girls can sing along. It’s going to be a great party!

Don’t forget to register for the sleepover by clicking here!

Honoring hometown heroes

Girls can do A World of Good with the Girl Scout Cookie Program — including giving  communities a chance to thank the people who keep them safe. These girls chose to honor first responders. A Gift of Caring program like this one also can help girls drastically increase their sales.

The fastest, easiest way to reach high goals

With the online Cookie Club, girls can safely email customers to ask for orders, and customers place their orders online. Girls love to see the orders stack up in their online goal-tracker. Laylah used Cookie Club to become one of her council’s top cookie sellers.

Get the scoop from the roving cookie reporter

Our cookie reporter has been on the move, interviewing girls and learning top selling tips. See what she has learned about the Cookie Program.

Take action with…pajamas?

Girl Scouts make a difference in their communities through Take Action projects. Start the giving early this year at the National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover. Continue Reading →

Recipes for scrumptious snacking — and sales

Tagalong shakes, anyone? If cookies are available, let girls taste them and make a yummy recipe.  Girls can also make recipe cards for cookie booth giveaways to drive sales.

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Create some booth bling!

Wondering what to do with all those empty cookie cases?   Or any other leftover cardboard you  may have? Marketing-savvy Girl Scouts can use them as a business-builder.  Grab some markers and a roll of colorful duct tape – now available in countless styles and fun shades. Get creative! Continue Reading →

Say it with sock puppets

A practiced sales pitch is a tried-and-true technique of successful sales people.  Girls will love getting crazy and creative as they make a simple sock puppet and then use it to practice what they will say to convince a customer to buy cookies. Continue Reading →

You’re invited to the National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover

Are you ready to party Girl Scout style? Pull out those fuzzy slippers and sleeping bags and join Girl Scouts from across the country for a brand new kind of cookie fun and learning for the first ever National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover!

What do we need? Sleepover essentials

What kind of event will you plan so girls can experience the first-ever National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover? It’s sure to be one-of-a-kind! Even though each group’s needs are different, there are a few essentials. Continue Reading →

3D – How does it work?

Although 3D glasses aren’t required to see the Sleepover show, they will make it even more fun for the girls.

Important! If you are making your own 3D glasses for the Sleepover show, make sure the red lens is over the LEFT eye and the cyan (bluish) lens is over the RIGHT eye. Reversed lenses or clear 3D glasses will not work. Continue Reading →

Girls glow with cookie facials

What’s more fun than eating Thin Mints? Wearing them! This minty-chocolate facial is perfect for getting girls excited about cookie season. Continue Reading →

Introducing … a rundown of Sleepover highlights

There are plenty of fun surprises waiting for girls during the National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover on Jan. 12, but we don’t want to leave volunteers in the “dark.” Continue Reading →

Make Sleepover memories – and share them

Help girls remember the National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover in style with this iron-on group photo t-shirt. Continue Reading →

Girls glam it up with cookies.

Invite girls to cast their votes for their favorite cookie by painting their fingernails. Continue Reading →

Join the conversation

The Sleepover is just days away. You can help the girls join the conversation on  Facebook  and Twitter. Continue Reading →

Set a group goal during the Sleepover

In addition to being a lot of fun, the National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover will inspire girls to do some important work. They will have two, 10-minute “cookie breaks” during which they can set goals for how they want to use their cookie money.

To make it even easier, we’ve created a Sleepover Goal Guide. Each girl will need a complete guide (four pages) for use during the Sleepover show. Continue Reading →

Who’s in the bag?

Girls will get lots of giggles from a game that takes hearing as sharp as their sales skills.

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Practice puppets – try them in 3D!

Girls will love using 3D glasses to see parts of the Sleepover show. After the show, extend the fun with this additional 3D cookie-learning activity.

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Get inspired with inspiration boards

Help girls see just where goals can take them. Use this fun memo board craft to help them brainstorm about how they might use their cookie money this year. Girls can slip clippings and photos that represent their ideas beneath the colorful ribbons to create a collage. The board can be saved and reused for brainstorming on a different topic or as a photo display. Continue Reading →

Welcome to the Girl Scout Volunteer Blog!

We’re glad you’re here!

In a recent volunteer survey, over 60 percent of respondents said a volunteer blog would best suit needs for Cookie Season support. You spoke and we listened! Continue Reading →

What can a girl do?

To answer this important question, Little Brownie Bakers traveled the country to ask the experts — Girl Scouts and Girl Scout volunteers like you!

We think you’ll be as inspired as we were. Girls can do A World of Good.

Where will you be Jan. 12, 2013?

The first ever National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover is coming soon! Girls are sure to be pumped up for Cookie Season after a night of fun shared with Girl Scouts from across the country. Learn more about the fun we have in store.

Don’t forget to register for the sleepover by clicking here!

Make your own 3D glasses!

On Jan. 12, 2013, girls can make history by participating in the first-ever National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover. What could be more fun? How about experiencing part of the program in 3D!

Cookie charm bracelets girls love

Girl will love making this “charming” cookie catalog to wear on their wrists.