Communities around southeast Iowa have been getting creative with ways to stay active during school closures due to COVID-19. One such idea is a teddy bear hunt, and one mom in Wellman wanted to try out the idea in her community. Ashley Conrad started the Mid-Prairie Bear Hunt Facebook page, and within a matter of days, hundreds of teddy bears were being added to a map highlighting where each bear is found. Wellman resident and mom of four Whitney Campbell tells KCII News her excitement to see her community come together during these times, “It was wonderful just to have a reason to get out of the house and to drive around the community and see how other people are enjoying the bear hunt. My girls really enjoyed seeing all the different kinds of bears. We saw stickers of bears, we saw drawn bears, stuffed bears, big ones, small ones, statues. Everybody is participating in their own way. We feel very blessed to live in a community where people see a crisis and they say, ‘What can we do to make it better?’” The Mid-Prairie Bear Hunt is currently taking place in the Kalona and Wellman communities with over 100 bears to be found. Campbell’s daughters, Meredith and Lilly, highlighted some of the bears they found during their hunt, “We found a big big bear in a window and it was really hard to find. We found a stuffed bear in a window and we found a sticker bear. And we found welcome bears and there were four of them put together.” They say they want to be able to find 300 teddy bears before the bear hunt is over.