The cookie program helps girls learn important skills related to handling money, goal setting, teamwork, meeting the public, and more. One of the things that makes the Girl Scout Cookie program different from most youth fund-raisers is that a portion of the revenue goes to troops so that girls can make decisions about the money they earned is spent.

The volunteer Board of Directors of GSIWC budgets the remaining proceeds for expenses related to providing Girl Scout services to 3,800 girls and 950 volunteers in this council, covering 16 counties in northwestern Wisconsin.

Get Yours

Have a craving for Thin Mints? Well, you’re in luck! You can still order Girl Scout cookies!

Cookies will be on sale through May (or until they’re gone!) and will be arriving in the first week of April. You can place an order one of three ways:

Email alissak@gsiwc.org
Call 1-800-432-9823
Fax 1-715-835-2768

There are two NEW cookies this year! The delicious Lemon Chalet Crème, for those who missed their favorite lemon cookies last year and Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip, for our health-conscious and diabetic customers.

We still have our classic Do-Si-Do (peanut butter sandwich), Trefoil (shortbread), All Abouts (shortbread & chocolate), Tagalongs (chocolate and peanut butter patty), Samoas (chocolate, caramel & coconut) and, of course, the number one selling Girl Scout cookie…Thin Mint (chocolate & peppermint)! Only $3.25 per box.

Order yours today!

Thin Mint	Samoas	Do-Si-Dos	Tagalongs
Trefoils	All Abouts	NEW - Lemon Chalet Cremes	NEW - Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip

2008 Cookie Sale Materials

View the Winning Cookie Commercial

Click here to view Troop 49's (Sherman Elementary) winning cookie commercial!

National Girl Scout Cookie Sale Activities

Dare to Share - Grades 1-5 - Activity Guide

Dare to Share - Grades 1-5 - Leader's Guide

Dare to Share - Grades 1-5 - Entry Form

Photo Release

Taking Pictures

Dare to Share - Grades 6-12 - Activity Guide

Dare to Share - Grades 6-12 - Leader's Guide

Dare to Share - Grades 6-12 - Entry Form

Photo Release

---

Cookie Sale Activities, Clip Art and More for Troops

Visit the Little Brownie Baker’s website -- Click here!

Cookie Club

Join the Cookie Club, Little Brownie Baker’s goal setting program for girls -- Click here!

Cookie Program History
Girl Scout Cookies® had their earliest beginnings in the kitchens and ovens of our girl members, with mothers volunteering as technical advisers. The sale of cookies as a way to finance troop activities began as early as 1917, five years after Juliette Gordon Low started Girl Scouting in the United States. The earliest mention of a cookie sale found to date was that of the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, which baked cookies and sold them in its high school cafeteria as a service project in December 1917.

In July 1922, The American Girl magazine, published by Girl Scout national headquarters, featured an article by Florence E. Neil, a local director in Chicago, Illinois. Miss Neil provided a cookie recipe that was given to the council's 2,000 Girl Scouts. She estimated the approximate cost of ingredients for six- to seven-dozen cookies to be 26 to 36 cents. The cookies, she suggested, could be sold by troops for 25 or 30 cents per dozen.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Girl Scouts in different parts of the country continued to bake their own simple sugar cookies with their mothers. These cookies were packaged in wax paper bags, sealed with a sticker, and sold door to door for 25 to 35 cents per dozen.

It started as a local fund-raiser that grew into a national phenomenon. Today, the Girl Scout Cookie Sale is the premier program-related product sale in the United States and generates over 50 percent of the revenue necessary to provide the Girl Scout program. Many women who sold cookies as Girl Scouts fondly recall the valuable lessons they learned: self-confidence, goal setting, money management, and team work. The skills that girls develop while participating in these programs help them to face tomorrow’s challenges.

Back to top

Operation Cookie Share
Again, the Girl Scouts of Indian Waters Council sent cookies to our soldiers for "Operation Cookie Share" (formerly Operation Thin Mint). Thousands of boxes were sent. Thank you to all the girls, leaders, and parents who helped make this important "operation" a sucess. The cookies are a great morale booster for the soldiers and a wonderful association of home.

Click here to view a PDF slide presentation of the impact of Operation Cookie Share.

We would like to thank the 2007 local sponsors who made donations to pay for the shipping of these cookies. A big thanks to:

Click the link below to download a free version of Acrobat Reader.