Egg Rolling

Egg Rolling a tradition to roll eggs on Easter Monday. (The Day After Easter). Also Called Easter Egg Roll. #EggRolling

Egg Rolling

What is the point of rolling an Easter Egg?

Egg Rolling, or an Easter Egg Roll is a traditional game played with eggs at Easter. Every nation or culture does their own thing with it.

The White House usually offers this for children under 13 on the South Lawn. Here The Egg Roll is a race, where children push an egg through the grass with a long-handled spoon. Where the first Easter Egg Roll occured on April 22, 1878 after President Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to open the White House grounds on Easter Monday to children. (Learn more about the history of this event at the White House.)

However with the COVID-19 pandemic, Melania Trump announces cancellation of White House Easter Egg Roll for 2020. No word on 2021.

The health and safety of all Americans must be the first priority, especially right now, I deeply regret this cancellation, but we need to make difficult decisions in the short-term to ensure a healthy country for the long-term.

Melania Trump

The rolling of the eggs down the hill symbolizes the rolling away of the stones on Christ’s tomb associated with his resurrection.

Learn the truth about Easter Eggs!

Anyone have experience with rolling Easter Eggs?

Feel free to share about the experience and/or thoughts about rolling eggs to symbolize the rolling of the stone from the tomb. Your comments are welcome.

Easter Blog Posts

Below is a list of blog posts that relate to Easter. Be sure to check them all out!

1. 1 Cross, 3 Nails, 4 Given Church Sign
2. 8 Things Jesus Accomplished on the Cross
3. 20th anniversary of the powerful film, “The Passion of the Christ.”
4. A-Z of Easter, The
5. Amber Alert: Jesus Christ is Missing
6. Arise My Love by Newsong
7. Ascension
8. Ash Wednesday, Day of Ashes
9. Body of Christ
10. Breakfast Pizza
11. Broken Egg
12. CEO Christians Church Sign
13. Colors of Easter
14. Cracking the Tradition of Hiding Easter Eggs
15. Create and Hide Unbreakable Easter Eggs
16. Cross Acronym
17. Cross of Jesus
18. Cross Tree
19. Dogwood Tree
20. Drive-Thru Easter Egg Hunt
21. Dye Eggs with All Natural Ingredients
22. Easter celebrations in the era of social distancing
23. Easter Egg Trunk Hunt
24. Easter Finger Puzzle Printable
25. Easter is Canceled
26. Easter Lilies Can Kill A Cat?
27. Easter Monday
28. Easter Story Snack Mix Printable
29. Easter Sweet Treats Makes Easter Special
30. Easter Symbols
31. Easter Trees
32. Easter Word Search Printable
33. Egg Rolling
34. Emoji Easter Story Printable
35. Empty Egg
36. Finished An Easter Spoken Word Videos by KB
37. Forgiveness
38. Free Easter Printables
39. Good Friday
40. Happy Easter “Resurrection Day”
41. He is Risen Display
42. Hiding Easter Eggs
43. History of Easter Bonnets
44. Holy Monday
45. Holy Saturday
46. Holy Thursday
47. Holy Tuesday
48. Holy Wednesday
49. Hot Cross Buns
50. If Jesus Had An Obituary
51. Importance of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
52. It’s Not About the Bunny Church Sign
53. Jelly Bean Prayer Printable
54. Jesus Shows His Scars
55. KSBJ’s Cross Stops in Houston!
56. Lazarus Saturday
57. Legend of the Donkey’s Cross
58. Legend of the Sand Dollar Printable
59. Legend of the Three Trees
60. Lent
61. Let kites soar: A Lenten tradition takes flight
62. Life Savers
63. Make Easter Eggs Last
64. Maundy Thursday
65. Meaning Behind Easter Lilies
66. No Bones About It – Jesus Is Alive!
67. Palm Sunday
68. Passover
69. Resurrection Bracelet
70. Resurrection Rolls
71. Searching for Christ
72. Shrove Tuesday
73. Silly Rabbit, Easter is for Jesus
74. Son of God Movie Review
75. Spy Wednesday
76. Stay-At-Home Spring Printables for Kids
77. Stitching Easter delights with Sewing
78. Sweating Blood Prayer
79. Telelestai
80. That’s My King Dr. S.M. Lockridge
81. The Rock at UT Painted for Easter (2024)
82. The University of Tennessee Rock painted with an Easter Messages (2022)
83. Trail to the Empty Tomb
84. Truth About Easter Bunny & Easter Eggs
85. That Tomb Is Still Empty, Easter Story Told by Two Kids
86. Unique Easter Traditions from Around the Globe
87. University of Tennessee Rock painted with an Easter Message, The
88. What if the Resurrection Happened Today
89. What’s So Good About Good Friday?
90. Why Did Jesus Fold the Napkin?
91. Words of Forgiveness by Saving Darkness
92. You, Sin, Christ – A Simple Illustration
93. You’ve Been Egged Printable

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Steve Patterson

A Christian Blogger that enjoys blogging about the Bible, Theology, God, Jesus Christ, Christian Music, Family, Cats, Odd Holidays, sewing and much more. I have been blogging since 2004, however, I have been blogging on Courageous Christian Father since 2012. I enjoy listening to Christian Music. I am married with 1 daughter, 2 step-sons and a step daughter.

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