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Inauguration Junior Ranger Game: Plan Your Inauguration

Can You Imagine?


Every four years in the United States a president and vice president are elected and sworn into office. Let’s explore inauguration history and traditions! Visit the main Presidential Inauguration Junior Ranger Online Book for the full of list Junior Ranger activities. Here, let’s imagine together and plan your inauguration!

President Theodore Roosevelt rides in a horse-drawn carriage during his inaugural procession to the Capitol. The carriage is surrounded by men in hats on foot and horseback.

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How would you travel from the White House to the Capitol?

Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale smiling hold up their joined hands

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Who would be your vice president?

A handwritten Bible used in the inauguration of President James A. Garfield is held open to the first page by a person wearing a white glove

NPS Photo, James Garfield National Historic Site



What book would you use for your swearing-in ceremony?

President Wilson standing at a podium before a crowd giving an address in 1913

NPS Photo



What would you say during your inaugural address?

A uniformed military band stands in rows, with a line of brass players standing against a white building, flanked by men carrying flags.

NPS Photo



What bands would play in your inaugural parade?

President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter dance smiling at an inaugural ball on a crowded dance floor.

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What would your inaugural ball be like?

Moving In To the White House


Thomas Jefferson was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C. He moved into the new White House as it was being finished. Help Jefferson make the White House a fitting home for the president! As president, how would you arrange your living and working spaces?

A top-down view of the floorplan of the White House with divisions for the walls indicating the shape of rooms

NPS Inauguration Junior Ranger Program

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Last updated: January 15, 2021