No advance tickets are available. It should not be necessary to spend much time in line and it is not necessary to line up before 7 a.m. Food, chewing gum, coolers, or lawn chairs are not permitted on the South Lawn. Each stage is designed to convey these ideas. The Off to a Good Start area on the Ellipse provides ticket holders with a free, nutritional breakfast. Stage performers and roving characters will entertain.
Areas designed to offer interactive arts and crafts offer additional fun.
This is also a great opportunity to have photos with some of the many costumed characters. The Spring into Learning stage offers high-energy fashion shows, the Paper Moon kids from the national company of Paper Moon, and the Story Time TV characters. The Imagine the Possibilities story-telling stage is hosted by Mr. Hatbox, Elizabeth Belle MacDonald, and a troupe of actors and performers. Always popular egg dying and decorating are available again. K'Nex Toys displays giant models of historic U.S. monuments.