2D Shape Role-Play Game – EYFS/Pre-K

Create a Shape Shop in your Maths Area or for role-play to reinforce your children’s understanding of the properties of 2D shapes (sometimes known as flat shapes). The colourful images and clear lettering will entice your children to use their developing shape (and money) vocabulary as they play.

Contents:

• Shape shop banner
• Pictures of shopkeepers inviting children to the Shape Shop.
• Labels for shapes
• Labels for shapes with prices in pennies matching the number of sides (i.e., triangles cost 3p)
• 2 of each shape in assorted colours (triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons).

Fully editable so you can include more or fewer shapes to support or extend children’s understanding as required. Or if you are not in the UK, you can change the currency.
(Remember to save a master copy first).

I also have a free PDF version available in my Star Lane Learning shop on TES.

Why should you choose this resource?

Whenever I have played this game in a class to support our work on 2D (or flat) shapes, children have wanted to repeat the game with their friends as part of their self-chosen activities. Why not enhance their experience with signs and labels to catch their attention and deepen the learning? Children will use their developing reading skills to read the signs and might try writing price tags. They will engage in meaningful conversations whilst in role and develop the negotiation skills needed to share the customer and shopkeeper roles.

How to use:

• Create a shop with these and any other shapes you have. Children love a countertop and a till with money to support their play alongside the shape ‘produce.’ You could also add in maths mark making opportunities with price tags to write.

• Model how you would like them to play the game in a whole class or group time. Children should ask for a shape by its properties or attributes e.g. ‘Please can I have a shape with 3 straight sides and 3 corners.’ The shopkeeper then must find the correct shape.

Why not introduce this activity in a whole class or group session using my Shape Shop PowerPoint, also found in my Star Lane Learning shop on TES? Fun characters model the language the children can use in the shop and animations reveal the shapes that match the descriptions.