New Zealand embraces teddies to help make lockdown bear-able

By Nick Perry

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Monday, 06 Apr 2020
1:55 PM MYT

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A teddy bear hangs upside down in a window of a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. Hoffman started the Facebook page 'We're Not Scared – NZ Bear Hunt' and also set up a website where more than 120,000 people have now put pins on an online map to show the location of their bears. — AP

WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Some are perched in trees. Some are hanging upside down. Some are baking scones.

Teddy bears are popping up in the unlikeliest of places as New Zealanders embrace an international movement in which people are placing the stuffed animals in their windows during coronavirus lockdowns to brighten the mood and give children a game to play by spotting the bears in their neighbourhoods.

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A teddy bear hangs upside down in a window of a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. Hoffman started the Facebook page 'We're Not Scared – NZ Bear Hunt' and also set up a website where more than 120,000 people have now put pins on an online map to show the location of their bears. — AP

A teddy bear sits on the balcony of a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealanders are embracing an international movement in which people are placing teddy bears in their windows during coronavirus lockdowns to brighten the mood and give children a game to play by spotting the bears in their neighborhoods. — AP

A teddy bear sits in a window of a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealanders are embracing an international movement in which people are placing teddy bears in their windows during coronavirus lockdowns to brighten the mood and give children a game to play by spotting the bears in their neighborhoods. — AP

A teddy bear sits on a the wheel of a car outside a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealanders are embracing an international movement in which people are placing teddy bears in their windows during coronavirus lockdowns to brighten the mood and give children a game to play by spotting the bears in their neighborhoods. — AP

A teddy bear sits in a window of a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealanders are embracing an international movement in which people are placing teddy bears in their windows during coronavirus lockdowns to brighten the mood and give children a game to play by spotting the bears in their neighborhoods. — AP

A teddy bear sits in the window of a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealanders are embracing an international movement in which people are placing teddy bears in their windows during coronavirus lockdowns to brighten the mood and give children a game to play by spotting the bears in their neighborhoods. — AP

A teddy bear sits under an umbrella in a tree outside a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealanders are embracing an international movement in which people are placing teddy bears in their windows during coronavirus lockdowns to brighten the mood and give children a game to play by spotting the bears in their neighborhoods. — AP

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New Zealand embraces teddies to help make lockdown bear-able