By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Child care providers are asking the public to help out with a "bear hunt."
"There are about 70 providers currently discussing this idea and trying to find ways to get the community involved," Leslie Waggoner, owner of Learn N Play Child Care, told Salina Post. "We began talking about bear hunts in our neighborhoods or amongst ourselves. A couple providers suggested in a Facebook Provider only group, that we expand outside of our neighborhoods and get the community involved. Then take the kids out to drive around town and 'hunt for bears.'"
The idea is simple. People are asked to put a stuffed teddy bear or even a photo of a bear in a window facing the street. If neither of those are available, another sort of suffed animal will do, Waggoner said.
The child care providers will have the children hunt for bears -- or other critters -- while driving the children around town. With the closings and restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is difficult for child care providers to take the children on field trips.
"We really would love it if everyone would join in and play along however they can," Waggoner said.
According to Waggoner, people in Plainville also are participating in the bear hunt and have more than 160 bears in windows there.