Garden Centre Dramatic Play Pack | Garden Center Role Play Printables | EYLF v2

Create a beautiful, nature-inspired dramatic play space with this Garden Centre Dramatic Play Pack. This printable role play resource is perfect for early years, preschool, kindergarten and play-based learning classrooms.

Children can explore real-world garden centre play as they take on roles such as customer, cashier, gardener, florist, delivery driver, plant expert and garden centre worker. They can buy and sell plants, use pretend money, complete order forms, check stock, care for plants, design bouquets, explore plant science and build language through meaningful pretend play.

This pack includes a wide range of garden centre signs, labels, forms, posters, learning pages and educator support pages to help you set up an engaging and purposeful dramatic play area.

Garden Centre Set-Up Printables

• Cover page
• Welcome sign
• Open and closed signs
• Opening hours sign
• Specials of the Day sign
• Garden safety poster
• Garden centre area signs
• Product labels
• Plant labels / stake markers
• Price tags
• Pretend garden centre money
• Role play badges

Role Play Forms & Shop Printables

• Customer order form
• Receipt template
• Shopping list
• Delivery docket
• Daily checklist
• Stock count cards
• Bouquet design mat
• Flower colour chart

Plant & Garden Learning Pages

• Plant care guide
• Plant information cards
• Seed packet printables
• Plant life cycle poster
• Parts of a plant poster
• Pollination poster
• Garden centre vocabulary poster
• Compost sorting page

Educator Support Pages

• EYLF v2 links page
• Educator observation page
• Learning story page
• Educator reflection page
• Extension ideas page
• Dramatic play set-up guide

Learning Opportunities

This dramatic play pack supports children to develop skills through meaningful, hands-on play.

Children can practise:

• Oral language and communication
• Turn taking and social interaction
• Early literacy through signs, labels, lists and forms
• Early numeracy through counting, price tags and pretend money
• Writing names, orders, receipts and shopping lists
• Problem solving and decision making
• Fine motor skills through cutting, writing and role play props
• Plant vocabulary and science concepts
• Caring for living things
• Confidence, independence and responsibility

The included EYLF v2 links and educator pages also support documentation, observation and reflection.

Perfect For

This resource is ideal for:

• Preschool dramatic play
• Kindergarten role play
• Early years classrooms
• Prep classrooms
• Garden centre role play
• Flower shop dramatic play
• Plant nursery themes
• Spring learning themes
• Nature play provocations
• EYLF v2 linked learning experiences
• Literacy and numeracy centres
• Play-based learning environments

Suggested Props to Add

To bring your garden centre to life, you may like to add:

Baskets, seed packets, plant pots, artificial flowers, pretend plants, gardening gloves, watering cans, clipboards, pencils, paper bags, pretend money, a toy cash register, small gardening tools and signs.

Please Note

This is a digital printable resource. No physical item will be shipped.

This resource uses Australian/UK spelling, including Garden Centre.