Before sitting down at the computer and entering the information, try one of these activities or your own activity to get girl involved!
Daisy, Brownie, Juniors:
Annual Troop Review
- BE PREPARED! Review receipts, forms, and bank statement prior to the meeting. It may be helpful to right the category on the top of the receipt; Meeting supplies, badges, community service/ take action project.
- Bring the receipt for the year and have the girls help you sort them into categories; dues, meeting supplies, badges, community service/take action projects. You can make containers/boxes for the girls to put them in. You could use old Kleenex boxes, diaper wipe container, yogurt container, or envelopes.
- Next, help the girls or give each girl a chance to calculate one of the categories and enter the totals on the Troop/Group Annual Finance worksheet. You can break the girls into groups and have the complete a section, or give each girl a chance to fill in a line on the worksheet – try enlarging it at an office supply store.
Discussion:
BEFORE
- How much do you think it takes to run a troop?
- Where does the money in the troop account come from?
- What do we need to buy for the troop? Weekly, Monthly? Yearly?
AFTER
- How much was our cookie proceeds?
- Were you surprise at how much/little we spend?
- How much money is currently in the troop account?
- How do we want to spend the money? Save the money?
Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors
Annual Troop Review
- Divide the girls into small groups, give each group a pile of receipt and ask them to separate them in to meeting supplies, badges, community service/take action projects categories. This can be a simple as being prepared and writing on the top of the receipt what category it belong in, circling “clues” on the receipt that would help the determine what category it belongs to ,or just letting them figure it out.
- Then come back as a group and complete the workshop. Suggest someone be the scribe, the one who will right the information on the Troop/Group Annual Finance worksheet.
Discussion:
BEFORE
- How much do you think it takes to run a troop?
- Where does the money in the troop account come from?
- What do we need to buy for the troop? Weekly, Monthly? Yearly?
AFTER
- How much was our cookie proceeds?
- Were you surprise at how much/little we spend?
- How much money is currently in the troop account?
- How do we want to spend the money? Save the money?
