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Mar 14, 2023

White House Easter Egg Roll Ticket Lottery Opens This Week

Plus, the First Family shared details on the annual White House spring garden tour weekend.

Apr 17, 2017

Trump Family Pulls Off First White House Easter Egg Roll

With more low key entertainment and a guest list of 21,000 children and parents (compared to 35,000 last year), this year’s celebration is significantly scaled back.

Mar 15, 2017

White House Easter Egg Roll Lottery Opens At Noon On Wednesday

And it closes March 18 at noon.

Apr 06, 2015

Photos: The 2015 White House Easter Egg Roll Looked Pretty Weird

Photos from this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll.

Mar 05, 2014

This Year’s White House Easter Egg Roll Lottery Opens Friday

The annual White House Easter Egg Roll will take place on April 21, presumably when it will be much, much warmer than it is now.

Apr 01, 2013

President Obama Is Terrible at Basketball

Perhaps its time that President Obama finds himself a new athletic pursuit. He shot 9.1 percent from the free-throw line in front of a bunch of kids and NBA players.

Apr 01, 2013

‘Kid President’ Helps White House Play April Fool’s Prank With Speech and Farting

“Kid President,” played by nine-year-old Robbie Novak, left a White House podium with a string of farts.

Mar 19, 2013

White House Warns Unlikely Government Shutdown Could Cancel Easter Egg Roll

Lots of kids (and web producers) are excited for the White House Easter Egg roll. But it might not happen if the government shuts down.

Apr 09, 2012

Obama Really Enjoys Reading Where the Wild Things Are

President Obama really got into today when he read Maurice Sendak’s classic picture book Where the Wild Things Are at the White House Easter Egg Roll.

Apr 09, 2012

Thirteen Decades of White House Easter Egg Rolls

The White House Easter Egg Roll is today. Take a look at what the White House Easter Egg Roll looked like in years past, as long ago as 1898.

 
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