Popcorn sales help meet many Scouting objectives!
More and more Scouting units use popcorn sales to raise funds for equipment, activities, and other needs.
Boys can earn much more than money!
Few activitities demonstrate to Scouts the value of planning, organization, and commitment more than a unit's combined efforts to sell popcorn. Scouts develop and practice new skills, learn about sales and marketing, and reach new levels of personal success.
And, Scouts who participate in the sale may accomplish requirements for Achievements, Activity Badges, and Merit Badges. Because many of the activities involved in popcorn sales are similar to requirements for Scouting accomplishments, many Councils approves these activities as formally counting toward awards.
For example, the Central New Jersey Council allows Scouts to apply their work during a popcorn sale to the fulfillment for a Salemanship Merit Badge. Trail's End Salesmanship Merit Badge Presentation
Consider the following popcorn activities as counting toward Boy Scout Merit Badges. Before proceeding with your work, make sure your Merit Badge Counselor has approved your idea.
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 ART - For requirements 2, 5, and 6, produce an "America's Popcorn Sale" poster for local display, using pen and ink, watercolor, pencil, pastel, oil, tempera, acrylic paint, or marker.
 COMMUNICATIONS - For requirement 1, show your counselor how you would teach others to sell popcorn. Then, play the roles of customer and Scout, practicing selling techniques. For requirement 2, make a popcorn sales presentation to your counselor.
 CINEMATOGRAPHY - For requirements 1 ad 2, create a storyboard for a video designed to show Cub Scouts how to sell Trail's End popcorn.
 COMPUTERS - For requirements 2, 3, 4, and 5, design a personal sales spreadsheet to keep track of your popcorn sales, prizes won, and money made for the Troop.
 ENTREPRENEURSHIP - With counselor permission, use your own management of the Trail's End Popcorn Sale to meet many of the requirements for this badge, such as 3, 4b, 4d, and 6.
 GRAPHIC ARTS - For requirements 2, 3, and 4, design a poster for use during the popcorn sale, and follow the various steps described for ONE of the printing methods to produce copies of the poster.
 JOURNALISM - For requirements 2a or 2b, create a newspaper story or radio news announcement reporting on your Troop's participation in the Trail's End Popcorn Sale.
 PHOTOGRAPHY - For requirement 2b, take photographs of Trail's End products, or Scouts selling, and of other activities related to the sale, and arrange the prints, with captions, to tell a story of the sale.
 PLANT SCIENCE - With counselor permission, use Trail's End educational materials to show how popcorn hybrids are grown and processed (Requirements 8a and 8b - corn option).
 PUBLIC SPEAKING - For requirement 1, prepare and give a speech to a Cub unit describing the benefits of popcorn sales to the Troop. For requirement 2, prepare and give a speech to a Cub unit describing the steps to a successful popcorn sale.
 SALESMANSHIP - With counselor permission, use the meetings, practices, and procedures of the annual Trail's End popcorn sale to meet many, or all, of the requirements for this badge.
 TRUCK TRANSPORTATION - For requirement 10, describe what kind of truck would be needed to ship popcorn from the factory to your Council, tell how the popcorn would be packed, estimate the time for the trip, and explain what would be the best way to unload the shipment.
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