PRESS PHOTOs BY ANITA HIRSCH Kids who are staying home due to the COVID-19 pandemic are getting creative. Alice Yakamavage, 9, is using her driveway as a blackboard. Her message is “Sometimes the time before a big event is better than the time itself because there is more joy building up before the event itself happens.” She signed it 9-year-old Alice Yakamavage: not a famous person.

Alice Yakamavage swings on a rope chair hanging from a tree.