Wonder if the price of plastic eggs has risen too? 🧐 The White House Easter Egg Roll lottery will open this Thursday, March 16, at 10 AM.
Photo by David Wiegold for the White House Historical Association. Photo courtesy of the White House Historical Association.One of the White House’s most cheerful traditions, the Easter Egg Roll will take place this year on April 10. It’s free to sign up for the lottery, and entries must consist of at least one child and one adult. There’s a maximum of six tickets per household, including two adults. The lottery closes March 23 at 3 PM, and winners will be notified by e-mail.
The tradition has endured through the years, canceled only a few times due to World Wars I and II, forbidding weather, construction, and the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been a widely attended event for more than a hundred years, with thethat the first lady, Florence Harding, “intends to color the eggs herself after the good old-fashioned method of wrapping them in gaily-printed calico.”
The event’s title undersells the breadth of egg-related escapades that have occurred at the White House since the tradition’s inception. According to the, some of the earlier ceremonies included egg croquet, toss and catch, and “pecking,” in which eggs “are pecked together until they crack.” These games were short-lived, though, due to the smell of broken eggs.
The Reagan White House started using commemorative wooden eggs for the egg hunt in 1981, and the tradition of releasing decorative wooden eggs has remained. The White House has already debuted the , which feature signatures of the President and first lady, as well as images of the first pets and the White House. Last year, roughly 30,000 tickets were issued for the event.
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