Friends Furrever (8-12)

While the furry/fursuit community as a whole is welcoming to young fursuit cosplayers, many online spaces for furries are geared towards older teens and adults. In this ongoing club, students can meet in a safe and age-appropriate space to discuss their fursonas, share their feral and anthro furry artwork, and exchange tips and tricks on creating a fursuit or other furry-related cosplay! Therians can also find a happy home here. Whether your focus is on anthro/feral art, on costuming/cosplaying, or simply as living your life as a furry or therian, this club provides an opportunity to meet other students who share your creative interests. Class topics will be student-led, but will include: getting started as a furry cosplayer, creating a fursona, developing a signature furry/anthro art style, where to find resources for costuming, how to choose between making your own suit and purchasing a premade suit, doing quads safely, and fun art challenge like "draw it in your style." Social interaction is the cornerstone of this class, however, and the most important thing is to meet and enjoy the company of other young furs!

Students are welcome to attend class in regular clothes or in whatever degree of fursuit cosplay or therians masks/gear they prefer. Some students may wear ears or masks and tails, others may have modified raptor masks, while some may have partial or full fursuits. All are welcome! No student should feel required to dress in cosplay or will be made to feel their cosplay is inferior to a complete fursuit. The focus is on fun and socializing, not competition. One of the best parts of the furry community is the way they support each other and bolster each other's confidence! 

Weekly meetings have student-directed content, but we will start each week with an introduction of the students and their fursonas, an opportunity for students to share new artwork or costuming they have created or commissioned since the previous meeting, and then will transition into student-led discussion and socializing. We will do "draw it in your own style" activities where students can swap pictures of their fursonas and draw their classmates' artwork in their own unique art style. We play furry and therian games. We will also occasionally touch upon the topic of cosplay and fandom safety – both online (on platforms like Discord) and in person (at meet-ups or conventions).

Students in the 12-13 age range should choose which age group they are most comfortable with, the 8-12 group or the 13+ group.