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Girl Scouts Kick Off 2025 Cookie Season

Girl Scout Cookie Program February 7 – March 23, 2025

It’s time to kick off the 2025 Girl Scout Cookie season! This is a time when Girl Scouts everywhere hone their entrepreneurial skills as they find new and inventive ways to sell cookies, unboxing brighter futures for themselves. With the much-anticipated cookie season back in full swing, cookie lovers can celebrate as they indulge in the classic cookie line-up. 

The 2025 Cookie line-up is jammed pack with the full spread of highly sought after cookie varieties. 

  • Thin Mints
  • Peanut Butter Sandwiches
  • Peanut Butter Patties
  • Caramel deLites
  • Trefoils
  • Gluten-Free Caramel Chocolate Chip
  • Lemonades
  • Toast Yah!

At the close of the 2025 Cookie Season, the beloved Toast Yah!® will be retired. Toast Yah!® enthusiasts can get their hands on the last of these favorites by reaching out to a Girl Scout they know or their online Digital Cookie® online sales link. 

When girls participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Program, the largest entrepreneurial program in the world, they acquire a host of invaluable entrepreneurial skills, including goal setting, money management, decision making, people skills, and business ethics. Each box of cookies sold allows Girl Scouts to develop an inextinguishable entrepreneurial spirit, gaining courage, confidence, and character as they conquer new feats and embark on new adventures. 

Girl Scouts obtain transferrable like skills as they earn a variety of badges and awards, including Cookie Business badges, Financial Literacy badges, Cookie Entrepreneur Family pins, and badges.

All the revenue generated from Girl Scout Cookie sales stays local, directly supporting our council and troops. We use these proceeds to fund enriching activities and amazing experiences for girls year-round – like field trips, community projects, outdoor adventures, and more.

Girl Scout Cookie Important Points

  • Cookie Program Dates: February 7 – March 23, 2025
  • Cookie Booths – February 7 – March 23, 2025
  • National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend – February 21 – 23, 2025
  • Find Cookies –  www.getyourgirlpower.org – insert zip code and it supplies cookie booths in the area
  • The cost of a package of Girl Scout Cookies is $6
  • Digital Cookie enables customers to order cookies for home delivery, shipped directly to them, delivered by the girl or through Operation Cookie Share program.

Why the Cookie Program is important to our girls:

  • Through the Cookie Program, girls learn important entrepreneurial and business skills, and the cookie earnings power the amazing experiences girls gain in Girl Scouts.
  • Cookie Program 5 skills learned are Goal Setting, Decision Making, Money Management, People Skills and Business Management.
  • Our troops and girls do amazing things with their cookie earnings – community service, travel, camp, outdoor experiences, earning badges, and working on their Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards.
  • 100% of the net revenue from each Girl Scout Cookie purchase stays local, making it possible to invest in girls right here in our community. With their cookie proceeds Girl Scouts take part in leadership experiences, STEM, outdoor adventure, and life skills.

Why the Cookie Program is important our organization:

  • The cookie program is a crucial source of funding for us. It helps with delivering essential girl programming, proceeds reach girls in underserved areas and maintains our camp and properties.
  • We serve more than 3000 girls in our area who are able to participate in Girl Scouts through our Community Outreach Program. We provide the opportunity for all girls to become Girl Scouts and reach their full potential. 
  • Where does the money generated from cookie sales go? 

All of the revenue generated from Girl Scout Cookie sales stays local, directly supporting our council and troops. We use these proceeds to fund enriching activities and amazing experiences for girls year-round – like field trips, community projects, outdoor adventures, and more.

About Girl Scouts 
Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls with 2.6 million girls and 800,000 adult members worldwide. Girl Scouts of Central Illinois serves over 11,000 girls and 3,500 adult members in 38 counties throughout Central Illinois. For more information, visit www.getyourgirpower.org. or call your local Girl Scout Service Center at 877-623-1237.