GIRL SCOUT TROOP 2375 SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST:
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Prizes Have Been Ordered
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Every girl in our troop has been awarded at least the minimum prize level, so everyone can expect to get prizes and patches in the coming weeks!
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Prizes were ordered on Wednesday and the order was turned in to council on Thursday. I am told that we can expect to receive the prizes in one to two months. Until then, we’ll just excitedly wait! Congratulations, everyone, on a GREAT cookie sale!
Next Week in Girl Scouts Next week we will be learning about our bodies. We will learn how to love ourselves and how to embrace our differences. We will also have a very special craft from Katelyn Wiggins next week. See you all very soon!
The Girl Scouts Council of Orange County set a city-wide goal for Brea to sell 4700 cases of Girl Scout Cookies this year. The numbers are in for all troops and Brea sold a total of 5409 cases this year! Last year, Brea sold 4476 cases. That’s almost 1000 cases more this year! Council believes, and I agree, that this is because we now have the cookies on had rather than having to take pre-orders! Our troop was one of 23 troop in Brea to sell over 1500 boxes. The average number of boxes sold per girl in Brea was 155 boxes. Our average was 168 boxes per girl! Great job, 2375ers!
Congratulations to Katelyn Wiggins and Tess Jorris for being two of only 183 girls in Brea to sell between 150 and 300 boxes of cookies! Congratulations to Taylor Chau for being one of only 23 girls in Brea to sell between 300 and 350 boxes! Congratulations to Zoe Tschumper for being one of only 5 girls in Brea to sell between 450 and 500 boxes of cookies! Although our troop did not earn all bonuses, Brea did have 34 troops earn all bonuses! We were, unfortunately, ineligible for all bonuses because we are a new troop. If we do nut sales in the fall we will be eligible for all bonuses during cookie sales next year!
This Week in Girl Scouts This week in Girl Scouts we learned about Girl Scout traditions and history. We started with making sit-upons. A sit-upon is a mat that girl scouts make to protect themselves from the wet or dirty ground. We made ours out of tarp, yarn, and newspapers. The girls are welcome to bring these to meetings if they’d like to! We then moved on to making smores. For some girls, this
was their first experience with smores! We all loved our extra special treat. We also learned about the history of Girl Scout cookies. You’ll find a recipe for an early version of the Girl Scout cookie on page 3 of this week’s newsletter. We spent the last few minutes of our meeting making a flowery craft. What a great week!
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Final Booth Sales
“Obsticles are those freightful things you see when you take your eyes off of your goal.” -Henry Ford
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“I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.”
Early Girl Scout Cookie Recipe
-Pablo Picasso
1 cup Butter 1 cup sugar plus additional amount for topping (optional) 2 eggs 2 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder
Cream butter and the cup of sugar; add well beaten eggs, then milk, vanilla, flour, salt, and baking powder. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Roll dough, cut into trefoil shapes, and sprinkle sugar on top, if desired. Bake in a quick oven (375 degrees) for approximately 8 to 10 minutes or until the edges begin to brown. Makes six– to seven-dozen cookies.
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