2 hours? 4 hours? All night?
Posted on December 6, 2012 by Little Brownie Bakers
How long is the National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover?
As long as you want it to be! The video itself is about an hour long, but girls will have even more fun if you host an event around the video. Here are some examples of how you can plan your sleepover event.
Two- hour event
- Get crafty! Make or decorate your own 3D glasses so you’re ready for games and the exciting finale.
- Get moving! Use the sleepover rehearsal video to help girls learn the Samoas Shout song-and-dance routine so they’re ready to join the fun.
- Get ready for goals! Talk about goal-setting. Do girls have any initial ideas? During the program, girls will learn a lot about goals and have time to select their own. Get ideas from the Sleepover Goal Guide.
- It’s time! Gather the girls around and join Girl Scouts from across the country for the first ever National Girl Scout Cookie Sleepover, which will last approximately 60 minutes.
4-Hour Event
Follow the agenda of the two-hour event and add activities such as these:
- When girls arrive, gather for a troop or group photo and use it to create a goal-reminder such as an iron-on t-shirt or pillowcase. Autographing encouraged!
- Teach girls cookie names with a fun cookie bracelet craft that also gets girls in the cookie spirit.
- Help girls tune into safety by playing Cookie Safety Bingo.
- Encourage girls to create and use sock puppets to perfect their sales pitches to various kinds of customers.
All Night Event
Follow the agenda of the four-hour event and then expand it to create an all-night extravaganza:
- Create some booth bling, such as signs made from recycled cookie cases.
- Get them ready for their close-ups with tasty Thin Mint Facials. You have to see it to believe it!
- Pick a cookie, make a commercial. Girls know how to be stars.
- Provide a quiet place with computers where girls can explore Cookie Club.
- Create our simple, ingenious theater where girls can use stick puppets to role play their selling pitches – in 3D!
- Provide fingernail polish in the colors of the cookie boxes and let each girl paint her nails with her favorite cookie’s hallmark color.
- If you have them, let girls taste the cookies and make some yummy recipes with them. Tagalong shakes, anyone? You can also print copies of the recipes and let girls make recipe cards as cookie booth giveaways.
- Play the sleeping bag game called “Who’s in the Bag?” to practice selling conversations (and guess the identity of the person inside).
With so many games, treats, skits and giggles, who needs beauty sleep?
Don’t forget to register for the sleepover by clicking here!
Where is the sleepover going to be? please email me back
The sleepover will take place online and a link will be posted on LittleBrownieBakers.com early on January 12. See you then!
What if we can’t do it that day will the video be available after that day for us to do it when we can get together?
Yes, the link to the sleepover video will be available at LittleBrownieBakers.com.
Will the video be available on line at another time? For example, I have a Daisy Troop and would love to watch the video with them during our regularly scheduled meeting time.
Yes, the link to the video will be available early on January 12 and will be online after the event.
What is the registration for? Do they recieve patches for this like the other kickoffs? How would we get them?
The registration is for planning purposes so we know how many to anticipate for the event. We do not have an official “National Cookie Sleepover” patch this year. Instead, Little Brownie produces a “Cookie Rally” patch each year that may be available through your council.
Our troop loves the idea of a National Cookie Sleepover, and the scouts are looking forward to doing the crafts. But our council’s cookies are from abcbakers, will the video mention any of the other cookie varieties?
The Cookies Live video is a proprietary event of Little Brownie Bakers. It was produced by Little Brownie Bakers to support our councils’ cookie programs, and therefore only features the Little Brownie cookie name/varieties.
We live in the UK, I read that the sleepover video will be online early on the 12th are you able to give a better time our event will be held at 1400 London time which is 0900 EST. I’m just wondering if it will even be possible to show this video during our Rally Event as we kick off our cookie sales on 7 January. Thanks!
It’s great to hear that you are planning to tune in! We will have the video link posted first thing (before 8:00 am EST), so you can count on the link being accessible for your Cookie Rally. Enjoy!
So, you could have a party before 8:00 on the 12th and still watch the video? OR only at 8:00 our time zone?
Yes, that’s correct. We will post a link to the event early enough on the 12th to accommodate any troops that may be meeting earlier in the day.
So this is what I’m gathering….you can decide the length of your sleepover or PJ party and the time on the 12th because the link will be posted on the website, correct?
That’s right. The Sleepover program will run approximately 60 minutes, including breaks during which girls can work on creating their own goals. You can create a complete event that can last from a few hours to all night.
If I hook a projector to my computer to make the screen bigger will the 3d part of the show still work??
Yes, but keep in mind the large screen format may not appear to be as sharp. Enjoy the show!
I am trying to print off the bingo cards for tonight and the link is not working. Is there anywhere else I can get them? Thanks.
Do you have Adobe installed? Please be sure to do that and try the link: http://littlebrowniebakers.com/media/filebrowser/bingocards_cookie_safety_1to20.pdf
Can you post a link for the safety tip bingo cards also. The link you posted in the blog works but if you go through the website, it says page not found. Thanks.
Please try the link below and let us know if it doesn’t work for you. Here’s the link: http://littlebrowniebakers.com/media/filebrowser/safety_bingo_signs_lr.pdf
we are getting prepared for ours tonight. gonna do the dance, facials, nails and we cant wait.
Great to have you! Enjoy the show!