Valentine's Day: Florist Role-Play Pack | EYFS & KS1 Printables

Early Years (EYFS & KS1) Valentine’s Day: ‘Florist’ Dramatic Role-play Pack

Cultivate imagination, language, and early mathematical skills with our fantastic Valentine's Day: Florist Role-Play Pack! This comprehensive, one-stop printable resource is perfect for EYFS and KS1 children, providing everything you need to set up an immersive and engaging 'Florist' or 'Flower Shop' dramatic role-play area.

Ideal for Preschool, Nursery, School, or for Parents and Childminders at home, this pack transforms learning into a delightful, real-world experience, especially around Valentine's Day or during a topic on flowers, shops, or kindness.

This extensive pack includes:

• 'Florist' Banner: To head your shop display.

• Prices Poster: A ready-made poster displaying flower prices.

• Blank Proforma Prices: For children to fill in themselves, promoting number writing and value understanding.

• Picture Cards of Various Flowers: Beautiful illustrations of flowers to be 'sold' in the shop (ideally cut out and laminated for durability and reusability).

• Flower Signs: Additional signs to label sections or types of flowers.

• Open/Closed Signs (2 Styles): For managing shop hours and signalling availability.

• Flower Order and Message Templates: For children to take customer orders, write messages for loved ones, and practise emergent writing.

• Opening Times Poster: Including days of the week, helping children to understand daily routines and time.

(Note: Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity suggested on this page and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken.)

• 💡 How to use this resource in your classroom/setting

  Our Valentine's Day: Florist Role-Play Pack is incredibly versatile and can be used in a multitude of ways across various early years and KS1 environments:

  • Setting up the Role-Play Area: Use the banner as the main heading. Laminate and display the prices poster, opening times, and flower signs. Cut out and laminate the flower picture cards – children can arrange these in 'vases' (bottles, containers) or 'buckets'.

  • Imaginative Play & Social Skills: Encourage children to take on different roles – florist, customer, delivery person. This promotes imaginative play, turn-taking, sharing, and negotiation skills.

  • Communication and Language Development:

    • Children practice asking questions ("What flowers would you like?"), making requests ("Could I have three roses, please?"), and giving instructions.

    • The Flower Order and Message Templates provide authentic reasons for emergent writing and mark-making, or for adults to scribe children's messages, connecting spoken words to print.

  • Early Mathematics Integration:

    • Number Recognition & Counting: Children count out flowers for orders.

    • Money & Value: Use the prices poster to introduce concepts of money. Provide real or play money for transactions. The blank proforma prices encourage children to write numbers and assign values.

    • Addition/Subtraction (informally): "If you buy two roses and one lily, how many flowers do you have?"

  • Literacy Opportunities:

    • Reading the Opening Times Poster (days of the week).

    • Reading the Prices Poster and Flower Signs.

    • Writing on the Flower Order and Message Templates (from emergent marks to simple sentences).

  • Understanding the World: Discuss where flowers come from, how they grow, and their purpose (e.g., as gifts for special occasions).

  • Fine Motor Skills: Cutting out flower cards (if children are involved), writing on templates, and handling play money or props all support fine motor development.

• 🎯 Learning objectives covered - 🐣 EYFS Framework

  EYFS Framework:

  • Communication and Language (Listening, Attention & Understanding; Speaking): Children listen to and follow instructions, understand narratives, engage in conversations, and articulate their ideas and needs.

  • Literacy (Reading & Writing): Children engage with environmental print (signs, prices), understand that print has meaning, and develop emergent writing skills through order forms and messages.

  • Mathematics (Number; Shape, Space & Measure): Children count, recognise numerals, compare quantities, begin to understand money concepts, and explore positional language.

  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Building Relationships; Self-Regulation): Children develop social skills through collaborative play, learn to take turns, share, and express themselves.

  • Understanding the World (The World): Children make sense of their physical world and community through play, exploring occupations and real-life scenarios.

  • Expressive Arts and Design (Role Play): Children use imagination to act out experiences and narratives.

• 🎯 Learning objectives covered - 🐤 KS1 Curriculum

  KS1 Curriculum:

  • English (Spoken Language; Reading; Writing): Children participate in discussions, role-play conversations, read signs and prices, and write simple sentences for orders and messages.

  • Mathematics (Number and Place Value; Measurement - Money): Children count, order numbers, solve simple problems involving money, and understand quantities.

  • PSHE (Relationships; Rights and Responsibilities): Children learn about different roles in a community, develop respect, and understand social expectations.

Download our Valentine's Day: Florist Role-Play Pack today and watch your EYFS and KS1 learners bloom with knowledge and confidence!

⬅️ VALENTINE’S DAY Topic Page

⬅️ EMOTIONS & FEELINGS Topic Page

⬅️ KINDNESS & FRIENDSHIP Topic Page

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