(Year 1 – Original Financial Literacy Badge – Retired)
Released in 2011. Retired in 2022.
Budget Builder replaced Money Manger as the new Year 1 Financial Literacy Badge.
The Brownie Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting page has the information on when all badges were released.
Requirements
Five steps are needed to complete this badge:
- Shop for elf items with your elf doll
- Go grocery shopping
- Go clothes shopping
- Get ready for school
- Have some fun
Resources available through GSUSA
- The badge is no longer in production. GSUSA stores will only sell this badge until their original stock runs out.
- Leader Guide is NO LONGER available in Girl Scout Shop online
- Official badge is NO LONGER available in Girl Scout Shop online
or look for your local shop to save on shipping. - Retired badge – no VTK available
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How to Earn
Ways to earn as a Troop or an Individual
Our Summary of the GSUSA booklet activity choices
- Use the shopping item cards and buy exactly $10, $15, and $20 worth of items.
- Find out the total cost of 5 healthy food items.
- Find an outfit that costs $30 or less (store, catalog, online, discount store).
- Budget something with only $15 (meal, shopping, or pooling budgets to get something bigger).
- Budget an outing with only $30 (movies, outdoors, or pooling budgets to get something bigger).
Pick Out Different Activities
Use a Pre-Made Plan
- Meeting Plan at DS Brownie Girl Scouts
- Meeting Plan at Earn Brownie Try-Its Blog
- PDF Meeting Plan from GSRV (River Valley) – Archived Copy of PDF
- Slideshow on Google Docs from GSCI – Archived Copy of PPT
- Printable Meeting at Teachers Pay Teachers for Growing Girl Scout Helpers
Multi-Level Matches
Badges that correlate from other levels
- No Multi-level Matches available as this badge will be retired in the Summer of 2022.
Uniform
Location and placement of badge
This badge should go where #10 is stated on the GSUSA Uniform Guide.
(Note – Badges and pins on a sash simply go in order (top of sash to bottom of sash) of Identification badges, bridging badge, pins, journeys, and other badges. Anything that does not fit on the front can be placed on the back of the sash. Sashes will not hold a lot of badges and vests are recommended if you plan to earn badges.)
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