Communities are teaming up to provide a fun socially distant activity for kids during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Within hours, everybody was responding and wanting to join in,” she told the publication. “Everybody’s trying to enjoy this time at home with each other but do social distancing at the same time. So we’re trying to come up with some fun activities.”Nearly 100 homes in Stewart Springs are participating in the bear hunt, according to Groom. And many of the kids who play wear safari outfits or carry binoculars when they’re allowed to step out and stretch their legs.
“We have some houses where probably every stuffed animal they own is stuffed into a window,” Groom told TIME. “Some families have turned it into a safari instead of a bear hunt because you see other animals. People are putting bear prints on their sidewalks with chalk. It’s morphed into more.”She added, “Just because we’re social distancing doesn’t mean we have to socially isolate… We’re trying to come together as a community but still be six feet apart.
In South Carolina, Rhodes Bailey’s family is participating in the bear hunt that’s being hosted in the Hamptons and Old Woodlands neighborhoods of Columbia. However, for the Baileys, the hunt is more than a game. “It’s a way of communicating with other people while you’re still safe in your family isolation,” Bailey explained. “It’s like a silent visual message that families get to send to each other from their windows and it says, ‘We’re all in this together. I’m experiencing what you’re experiencing.'”
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