President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden look forward to welcoming some 30,000 children and their adult companions to the egg roll, egg hunt and other activities.
The first lady, who is a teacher, calls it the “Egg Roll,” the assistants said, and turns South Lawn into a school community with a variety of training centers.
It is the first Easter egg roll hosted by Biden, who is expected to speak to the crowd and take part in some of the activities, although it was raining in Monday’s weather forecast.
The COVID-19 pandemic led the White House to cancel the event in 2020 and 2021.
In addition to egg rolls and hunting, the all-day event will include a school activity area, a reading corner, a talent show, a place to teach children how to get food from farmers, a photography station, a natural ” egg education “zone with obstacle course and other fitness stations, and a” cafeteria “where children and their families will learn to make and eat delicacies.
The “egg-stravagantza” will get a strong boost through the participation of the presenter of “Tonight Show”, Jimmy Fallon, the singer Ciara and the actress-singer Kristin Chenoweth.
More than a dozen costume characters will roam the grounds, including Dr.’s The Cat in the Hat. Seuss, the Racing Presidents mascots for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball, Rosita and Cookie Monster from “Sesame Street” and Snoopy and Charlie Brown. including.
Military families will be among the 30,000 participants, including USS Delaware crew members and their families. The first lady is sponsoring the submarine nuclear attack, which the president ordered during a ceremony this month in Wilmington, Delaware.
Members of the general public received their tickets through an electronic draw.
The egg roll will be the largest event to date at the Biden White House and will unfold in five waves starting at 7:30 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m.
The resumption of this Easter tradition is a sign that the White House is reopening, despite the recent COVID-19 outbreak between cabinet members, White House staff, Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband and members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Some of these cases arose from the return of Gridiron Club’s spring dinner this month.
Self-guided, public tours of the executive building are set to resume on Friday in a limited way, as they also stopped in 2020 due to the pandemic.
The Easter egg roll of the White House dates back to 1878.
