Financial Literacy Time

GSUSA has gone to a lot of trouble to turn the necessary evil of fundraising into a fun and educational process for the girls.  Each level has a selection of "Financial Literacy" badges that often coordinate with the skills and processes for selling cookies.  My troop started their financial literacy badges this week.

Last year my Daisies earned two of their financial literacy leaves: this year we are working on Money Counts and Making  Choices.  My Brownies are working on Philanthropist.  For Money Counts the girls have to learn about different types of coins and paper money and they have to figure out the cost of fun.  For Making Choices they have to learn the difference between needs and wants, learn to set goals and learn to help others with what they need and want.

Philanthropist which requires the girls to learn the meaning of Philanthropy, find out what every person needs, investigate how to hep people who are hungry, find out how to help people who need clothing, and find out how to help in times of emergency.

My meeting plans for these badges are loosely based off the plans of Girl Scouts River Valleys and VTK.