Role Play for Garden Centre

Create an inviting garden centre role-play area with this coordinated printable pack for EYFS and KS1. Realistic plant pictures, clear lettering and matching green-and-cream designs support imaginative play, conversation, early writing and practical maths.

Children can become gardeners, shop assistants and customers as they choose plants, write shopping lists, take payments and create receipts.

What’s included?

• Garden Centre and Open/Closed signs
• Six shop labels: flowers, herbs, seeds, pots, tools and watering cans
• Six plant price cards with simple £2–£4 prices
• Picture price list and “Pay here” sign
• Gardener, shop assistant and customer badges
• Two picture shopping lists with tick boxes
• Blank receipt templates
• Seed packet labels for children to design
• Six plant care cards
• Six role-play talk prompts
• “Design my garden” drawing and writing sheet
• Teacher guide with setup ideas and learning opportunities
• Three garden-themed colouring pages

Learning opportunities

Encourage children to ask questions, take turns and use new vocabulary. Add purposeful writing through lists, receipts and plant labels, or explore counting, matching prices, adding amounts and giving change when children are ready.

Ideal for a garden centre topic, spring provision, plant learning or a sensory garden project.

Format: 13-page main PDF plus three separate one-page colouring PDFs — 16 printable pages altogether.

Print the pages you need and add pots, pretend plants, baskets, a toy till and play money to bring your garden centre to life.

Created by Little Learning Lane.