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Fun Ways to Earn the Daisy Money Explorer and Daisy My Money Choices Badges
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Time to read 4 min
Never Struggle Planning Activities Again
Easy to use activity booklets for your troop meeting.Never Struggle Planning Activities Again
Easy to use activity booklets for your troop meeting.|
Time to read 4 min
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If you're looking for fun and engaging activities to teach your girls about handling money, you're in the right place! With the switch from the Daisy Financial Leaves to the new Daisy Money Explorer and Daisy My Money Choices badges, there are even more exciting ways to teach important financial skills. These badges provide opportunities to explore concepts like saving, budgeting, and making smart money choices—perfect for developing life skills and leadership.
Below, we’ve outlined some fantastic activities to make your meetings fun and educational while earning these two new badges.
If you’re looking for step-by-step guidance, the Talk it Up, Making Choices, Money Counts, and Count It Up activity booklet is a great resource. It provides structured activities that make teaching money management easy and fun!
The Daisy Money Explorer badge helps girls explore how money works and how it can be used wisely. These activities are designed to get them thinking about how they can earn, save, and spend money responsibly.
What you need: 5 red cups labeled with different values (1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents, and $1), play money, and a bit of space to run!
How to play: Divide your girls into two teams. Set up the five cups labeled with money amounts on one side of the room. Give each team an equal amount of mixed coins and dollar bills. On "Go," the first girl from each team grabs a coin or bill, runs to the cups, and places it in the correct one. Then they run back and tag the next girl. The first team to sort all their money correctly wins!
What you need: Large pictures of fundraising products (like cookies), music, and space to move around.
How to play: Set up the pictures in a circle and play music. The girls dance around until the music stops. When it does, they each stand on a picture. When the music starts again, the leader removes a picture. The last girl standing on a picture shares it with a friend, teaching them about sharing and collaboration, just like they will need to do with fundraising proceeds!
This coloring activity helps girls understand coins better! Provide a printout of an image (like a coin-based puzzle) where each color represents a different denomination of money. Girls can color in the image to uncover the hidden picture while learning about coins in a fun, creative way!
Let the girls create and decorate their own piggy banks! This fun activity also ties into the theme of saving money. They can use their piggy bank to save for something they want or need, teaching them the value of setting financial goals.
The Daisy My Money Choices badge encourages girls to think about their financial decisions, helping them make smart choices when it comes to spending and saving money. Here are a few activities that will inspire thoughtful decision-making!
Even the youngest girls can learn how to make a positive impact with money. Discuss with the girls how it feels to not have enough basic needs like food and clothing. Then brainstorm ways they can help others in their community by donating items or raising funds for a good cause. The activity helps girls think about how money can be used not just for personal gain, but for the greater good.
Purchase the Friends and Neighbor game where girls can assist characters in need, such as a girl stuck in the rain or a boy afraid of the dark, while learning to recognize and understand emotions while handling the concept of money.
This activity helps girls make decisions about how they would handle money. Give each girl a set amount of pretend money and present different scenarios. For example, would they spend it all on a toy, or would they save it for something bigger? Discuss the pros and cons of each decision to teach them the value of budgeting and planning for the future.
Once the girls have worked on their fundraiser, whether it's selling cookies or another product, talk to them about how they can use the money they raised. What will they spend it on? How can they save some for the future? As they discuss these decisions, they’ll understand how to make thoughtful choices with the money they’ve earned.
Well of course give them the Daisy Money Explorer or the Daisy My Money Choices badge to display proudly on their vest, they earned it! Additionally If you are like many leaders we want to award our girls when they complete something even beyond just the patch. One great way to show achievement is with a certificate. Don’t worry you don’t have to make them, I found a resource that has done all the work for you and all you have to do is print them and customize the certificates with each girl’s name, badge or award earned, date, and troop leader.
Editable certificates perfect for awarding girls after earning a badge.
Enjoy every minute being a leader and continue to inspire your girls!
