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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.
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.
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What badges is your troop earning for cookie season?
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