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White House Easter Egg Roll

History · Family · 1 day after Easter

The White House Easter Egg Roll, where children push eggs across the South Lawn with spoons, and how families can try egg rolling at home.

White House Easter Egg Roll falls on Monday, March 29, 2027. That is 153 days away.

Picture a stretch of green lawn, a row of children, and a line of colored eggs waiting to be nudged forward with long-handled spoons. That is the White House Easter Egg Roll, a family event held on the South Lawn of the White House.

The main attraction is the race itself. Children crouch, spoons in hand, and push hard-boiled eggs toward a finish line. It looks simple until you try it. Eggs are not round, so they wobble, veer off course and sometimes roll back toward you. Patience tends to beat speed.

Around the races, the day usually fills out with other things to do: storytelling, music, games and plenty of people in costume. For many families the trip is a memory that gets retold for years, partly because of where it happens. Running around on that particular lawn is not an everyday experience.

Most people mark it from much farther away. An egg roll works in any backyard or park with a gentle slope or a flat patch of grass. You need a dozen boiled eggs, a few big spoons, and a start and finish line made from string or sticks. Dyeing the eggs first makes it easier to tell whose is whose when they inevitably collide.

Afterward, the eggs that survive the race in one piece can be peeled and turned into egg salad.

Ways to celebrate

• Host a backyard egg roll using wooden spoons and boiled eggs.
• Dye eggs with family members before racing them.
• Look up photos of past White House egg rolls together.
• Mark a start and finish line with string in a local park.

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