Thin Mints, Caramel deLites, Do-si-dos, Peanut Butter Patties and more will be making their way to cookie stands across Beaufort County in the coming weeks.

Local Girl Scouts launched their cookie season Friday night with a cookie rally at First Christian Church in Washington. Ninety-five scouts, ages 5 to 18, from Aurora, Bath, Chocowinity and Washington attended the overnight “lock in,” where the girls played games such as Cookie Twister and Tic-Tac-Dough, as well as learned the ins and outs of the business of selling cookies.

“I hope we did a good job of teaching them how to be saleswomen,” laughed Dana Andrews, who serves as the regional cookie coordinator. “We teach them about the cookies — all of our cookies, how to handle money and give back change. We try to incorporate that into a nice evening of fun. That’s the importance of all that, is teaching them how to sell things properly and be polite.”

Mock cookie booths gave scouts the opportunity to rehearse sales and a money station let them practice how to make change for their future customers. Planned by seventh-grade Girl Scout Kaitlyn Boyd, the cookie rally touched on all aspects of cookie sales, from properly running a booth to how to treat customers.

“There were six different stations set up,” said Kim Boyd, leader of Troop 1016 and the service unit manager for Beaufort and Martin counties. “We had a cookie walk, which is like a cakewalk: when they stop on a specific cookie they got a chance to sample that cookie so they know what they’re selling.”

Armed with their newfound cookie-selling knowledge, at 9 a.m. Saturday morning, when cookie sales officially began, some scouts could be found doing walkabouts, where girls, as a troop, sell door-to-door in neighborhoods, or manning booths at locations such as Walmart and Lowe’s Home Improvement in Washington.

The boxes of cookies have a new look this year, and though there is a new cookie on the market, Lemon-Ups, it is only available in select markets. This year also represents the final year for one cookie.

“Thanks-A-Lot have been around for 15 years; it will be the last year for Thanks-A-Lot,” Andrews said.

As for finding Girl Scout cookies, troops will be setting up booths in a variety of places, including at the Harbor District Market in downtown Washington.

“You should start seeing them showing up around town in cookie booths for the next six or seven weeks,” Andrews said.

To find a booth, visit www.nccoastalpines.org., follow the link for “Cookies+” then link for “Find Cookies.” There is also an app that can be downloaded onto smartphones.