Trying to teach your child how to tie shoes? No problem! We can help! This shoe tying activity is great for toddlers, preschoolers, and even kindergarten kids. Everyone has to learn how to tie shoes, but this way it is fun like a game and less frustrating!

Teaching Kids How to Tie Their Shoes

Learning how to tie your shoes can be a major accomplishment as a child. This activity for kids will make it fun to learn how to tie a shoe on their own.

A box is a great tool for children to learn when they are learning to tie their shoelaces. Having a child help you create a shoe lacing box can help increase a child’s interest in learning to tie shoes.

The shoe they trace for this project is their own. The shoe they create and decorate is their own. We even used laces that came from my son’s shoes.

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Related: Need practice lacing? We got you covered.

Supplies Needed To Make This Shoe Tying Activity To Teach Your Child How To Tie Their Shoe

Here are the supplies to you need:

• cardboard box
• construction paper
• scissors
• hole punch
• shoelaces
• glue
• materials to decorate the shoe (glitter, stickers, markers, crayons, etc..)

How to put This Show Tying Activity Together

Step 1

Trace one of their shoes onto a piece of construction paper.

Step 2

Cut out the outline of their shoe. 

Step 3

Use a hole punch to place four holes on the left front of the shoe and then four holes on the right front side of the shoe.

Step 4

Decorate the outline of the shoe.

Step 5

Glue the outline of the shoe onto the lid of a shoe box.

Step 6

Poke holes into the shoe box under each of the holes you punched into the shoe outline.

Step 7

Thread the shoe laces through the holes.

Note:

We pushed the laces down through the first two holes in the front of the shoe and then threaded them through in a crisscross pattern.

Now that the laces are in place you are ready to work on tying the shoelaces.

I have found that it helps to have a rhyme to say while you are practicing.

Video: Learn How To Tie ShoeS With This Shoe Tying Song

Having a song and shoe tying box as tools for learning can really aide children in learning to tie their own shoes.

More Shoe Tying Kids Activities From Kids ACtivities Blog

When did you learn how to tie your shoes? Parents sometimes struggle with when and how to teach shoe tying to their children. For more help and fun kids activities, take a look at these ideas:

• Early Learning: How to Tie a Shoe
• Lacing Activity for Kids
• Here are 10 great vestibular movement activities for toddlers.
• At What Age Can Kids Master Shoe Tying?
• We have more preschool lacing activities.

How did this shoe tying craft turn out? Did your little one learn to tie shoes?