Corbyn and Ellisyn Smith have been busy writing letters to ask their neighbours if they would be nice enough to participate in the nation-wide initiative, We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
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Eight-year-old Corbyn said he loves looking for bears in different places and staying inside all of the time makes him "very sad".
"We have to stay home now, Dad works from home now, and mum sometimes does," he said.
"We can't do anything away from home that is lots of fun. It's because of coronavirus 2019, and the big boat that carried lots of people with coronavirus. It's the only story on the news now.
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"It was fun to start with, but I want to go back to school to see my friends," Corbyn said.
Corbyn said it could "help make everyone very happy if the whole of Dubbo could have fun doing the bear hunt and hiding teddies in their houses."
"That might make people smile again," he said.
Six-year-old Ellisyn, said she doesn't like staying home all of the time either and enjoys being able to go for walks and "have fun looking for bears."
"I feel sad because I have to stay home and I can't see my friends. I miss my friends and dance classes, and going shopping with Mum," she said.
"We have to stay at home now and do school from home. It is because people are sick from coronavirus and we don't what to get sick too.
"It's sad to be stuck at home, but if you hide teddies, everyone could have fun and go and look for them. It would be heaps of fun. I would like to do this all the time and look for different things. That would make me and all my friends and everyone in Dubbo happy."
The bear hunting initiative was inspired by the children's book, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury.
Community members started displaying teddy bears and other soft toys in their windows, on balconies and in their yards when the coronavirus pandemic first started.
Children can than hunt the bears during walks or bike rides - which is one of the times people can leave their houses due to level three restrictions implemented as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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