Meeting 4: Money Counts and Count It Up Financial Literacy
Meeting at a Glance
Goal: Girls will know more about what money is worth and learn about/prepare for the
Girl Scout Cookie Program Activity.
Toward the Award: Earn the Money Counts and Count It Up leaves.
Supplies:
o Nametags
o Pen and sign-in/sign-out sheet
o Kaper chart
o Girl Scout Daisy, The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting
o Money Counts leaves
o Cookie Activity materials
o Play money and large number of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
o Pens and paper
Prepare Ahead:
o Select a game to play or learn the “Daisy Scout Song.”
o Select an activity from the Cookie Activity materials
o Purchase leaves for each girl.
Pre-Meeting
Greet, sign-in, and put on nametags.
Coloring Sheets
Ask the girls what smart money choices they made since the last meeting.
Opening
Gather and greet each other with the Girl Scout handshake.
Say the Girl Scout Promise.
Ask each girl to share what she likes to do for fun.
Ask for requests for today’s song and sing.
Business
In the Girl Scout Daisy Circle, review rules, assign kapers and talk about preparing to sell
cookies.
“Today we are going to learn more about money and what it is worth, and get ready to
participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Program Activity.
Discuss a little about what will happen at the Investiture Ceremony.
Activity/Exploration
Ask the girls to pull out the Money Counts and Count It Up packets from the Girl’s
Guide.
Read COIN-counting book by Roxanne Lanczak Williams
Play Cool Cash Bingo game.
Congratulate the girls for earning the Money Counts and Count It Up leaves.
Clean-up
Remind girls of kapers and work together to leave the site better than you found it
Closing
Form a Friendship Circle, sing, “Goodbye, Daisies,” and do a friendship squeeze.
Collect nametags and sign-out.
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