While there are plenty of cooking related badges for troops to earn, here are 30 Girl Scout cooking meeting ideas just for fun.
During my time as a leader, among the favorite troop meetings I had over the 13 years my were the ones that involved cooking. When my troop were Brownies, we earned the retired Make It, Eat it, Try It badge. We also did a community service baking project to send homemade cookies to our troops serving overseas, and we had a professional baker teach the girls how to decorate cupcakes.
As Juniors, we had a backyard camping experience and made treats over the campfire.
From Cadettes until Seniors (Covid basically wiped out the Ambassador years), the girls met at my house every December to bake cookies and muffins for my synagogue’s homeless hospitality project.
When we did the Mission Sisterhood Journey, the girls made homemade pizza and cookies in a jar.
As you can see, many of the cooking experiences were not tied to a badge. One way to keep your older girls interested in staying in Girl Scouts is to have meetings that revolve around food. While you can earn a badge for cooking, if you are wishing to keep things easy and not worry about completing steps, her are 30 ideas for Girl Scout cooking meetings that are just for fun.
30 Girl Scout Cooking Meeting Ideas Just for Fun
All of these ideas revolve around food, whether cooking, going on a field trip, or doing community service.
If you would like a PDF of this list, you can download one here for free in my TpT shop.
Cupcake Wars
Cake decorating
Taco party
Murder Mystery
Progressive dinner
Themed food meeting-pick a country and find recipes to cook
Go to a food truck festival
Volunteer at a food bank
Friendsgiving meal
Box oven cooking
Campfire cooking
Create a troop cookbook with the girls’ favorite recipes and then make them at a meeting
Go to the Farmer’s Market
Cookie decorating
Bake dog food treats for an animal shelter
Focaccia garden art
Chopped challenge
Iron Chef challenge
Restaurant tours
Cookie swap
Cook a meal for Ronald McDonald House
Take one or more cooking classes
Volunteer for Meals on Wheels
Fondue party
Copycat recipe party (have the girls select favorite foods from the grocery store or a restaurant and make a copycat recipe of that food)
Have a guest chef to teach basic cooking techniques
Go fruit picking and then come home and bake with the ingredients
Chocolate molding
Food art (Pinterest is a great resource)
No Bake recipe cooking
Remember to download this list for free on TpT!
Do you have any other Girl Scout cooking meeting ideas that you have done just for fun?
