The Out of This World Cosmic Seating Rug gives every child their own character seat. Smiling stars, astronauts in space suits, ringed planets, rockets, crescent moons, and shooting stars are arranged across a black night-sky ground. Each one a distinct illustrated seat spot that children identify as their own space in the room. The character variety means no two seats look exactly alike, which gives the rug a level of individual engagement that color-block seating rugs cannot match. Size Seats Best For 6' x 8'4 20 seats Smaller classrooms, Pre-K and kindergarten 7'6 x 12' 24 seats Full class circle time, early elementary classrooms Classroom Seating Overview Designed to comfortably support typical classroom seating by grade level. Actual seating may vary depending on student size and classroom layout. Rug Size Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 6' x 8'4 20 18 15 15 7'6" x 12' 24 24 22 20 The illustrated character seats give teachers a built-in daily reference system that children engage with more readily than numbered or color-only seats. Each child sits on a specific character like the astronaut, the planet, the shooting star, which becomes their identity on the rug for the year. That named-seat approach supports personal space awareness and reduces the ambient negotiation over seating that disrupts circle time, without requiring any additional labels or materials on the floor. The black night-sky ground makes the illustrated characters pop with genuine visual clarity. The colorful celestial figures read immediately from across the room, and the dark background keeps the overall environment from feeling busy despite the variety of characters across the surface. For classrooms already doing space and STEM curriculum, the rug functions as a permanent, floor-level visual reference that connects the gathering space to the content being studied. Teaching Ideas Character-based seat assignments and community building Assign each child a character seat at the start of the year and use those characters throughout daily routines. Call all the astronauts to line up first, ask the planets to share their morning news, or group the rockets and shooting stars together for partner work. Children who sit on illustrated characters develop a stronger sense of ownership over their seat than those on plain color blocks, which supports the personal space awareness and respectful community norms that early elementary classrooms build toward all year. Space vocabulary and STEM curriculum connections The six character types — stars, astronauts, planets, rockets, moons, shooting stars — introduce and reinforce space vocabulary every time children gather on the rug. Ask students to identify which characters are human-made versus natural, which ones exist in our solar system versus only in imagination, or what an astronaut needs to survive in space. The illustrated characters give science discussions a concrete visual anchor at floor level before and after read-alouds, science investigations, and STEM activities. Sorting, classifying, and counting activities Count how many of each character type appear on the rug, sort characters into categories (living versus non-living, things that move versus things that stay still, things found in nature versus things built by people), or tally each type and compare results. For first and second grade, use the character distribution as a data set for simple graphing and comparison activities. The variety of characters makes the rug a self-contained manipulative for classification and data collection without any additional materials. Specifications & Certifications • Made in the U.S.A. by Flagship Carpets • Class I Flammability/Fire Rating passed • Highest fiber density, infusion dye process • Indoor Air Quality passed • Anti-microbial and anti-static treatment • Bound and double-stitched with nylon edge yarn • Scotchgard protector for soil resistance • CRI Green Label Plus certified • Item FA3433-32FS (6' x 8'4) / FA3433-44FS (7'6 x 12) Part of Flagship's outer space classroom series. Pairs with the Star Light Seating Squares Rug, Shining Star Multi Black Rug, Shooting Stars Rug, Outer Space Border Rug, and Galaxy Aligned Rug for a fully coordinated space-themed classroom.