Here is a glance at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
The White House Easter Egg Roll is held the Monday after Easter on the South Lawn.
For the egg roll race, youngsters push the eggs by means of the grass with spoons.
The occasion is open to kids 13 and youthful, and their households.
1870s – The Monday after Easter kids and households collect on the grounds of the US Capitol to roll hard-boiled eggs on the garden.
1876 – Congress approves the Turf Protection Act to guard the grounds of the Capitol from injury.
1878 – President Rutherford B. Hayes hosts the first White House Easter Egg Roll.
1953 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower revives the Easter egg roll. It was suspended in 1942 due to World War II and later, a White House renovation.
1969 – First Lady Pat Nixon introduces the White House Easter Bunny for the first time.
1985 – Nancy Reagan personally invitations a younger woman, Jennifer Ledbetter, to the Easter egg roll after a Reagan aide informed her she was unwelcome as a result of she supported Walter Mondale.
2001 – The roll is canceled for the first time since 1984 due to rain.
2009 – For the first time, a web-based lottery for tickets is held in order that kids from round the nation have a possibility to attend.
2020 and 2021 – The White House Easter Egg Roll is canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak.
April 18, 2022 – The roll takes place after a two-year hiatus because of the coronavirus outbreak.
April 21, 2025 – The Easter Egg roll options high-dollar partnerships with YouTube, Meta, Amazon and others. The White House, by means of an outdoor occasion manufacturing firm referred to as Harbinger, solicited corporate sponsors for the 2025 Easter Egg Roll. The sponsorship provides ranged from $75,000 to $200,000, with the promise of brand and branding alternatives, in accordance with a nine-page doc despatched to potential sponsors and obtained by NCS.