How will you give intruction to a child on how to tie a shoelace?

Question

How will you give intruction to a child on how to tie a shoelace?

Answer 1

Preschool may be too young to expect a child to tie his/her shoes.  Fine motor skills are the last to develop in a young child.

Answer 2

http://www.prekfun.com/Theme_Pages/A_F/B...

www.atozkidsstuff.com/shoes.html

www.onshoes.org/tyingshoes.htm

these should help, children relate to stories and visual...it will help :)

Answer 3

http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~elandaue/l...

has pictures of how to tie your shoes

show this to the kids and see how they learn from the picture

Answer 4

If its a little princess your working with tell her "its like a jump rope" or if its a prince tell him its like to put on his spidey glove and not to tangle his own shoe.

Answer 5

I used the bunny ear method.  make two bunny ears and cross and down through the hole.  I used a pair of work boots so the strings were very long and easy to manipulate.

Answer 6

One step at a time.  

It is easiest, if you use a fairly long, flat-style string, rather than round, slick, or short ones.  A large shoe, held down, or even a board, is nice, too, as it doesn't move around, and the child can concentrate on the tying task only, not holding the foot still

Do the first step, crossing the strings.  

When that can be repeated successfully, over and over, then do the next step, tucking the top string under the bottom, and pulling both ends for the first "tie"

When the child can do that every time, teach the process of making an appropriate-sized loop.

Every time, start from the beginning.  Now, your child can cross the string, tuck the end under, pull it tight, and make a loop.  

When that step is always successful, (and be sure to give lots of praise when each step is mastered), then teach the step of wrapping the string around the loop.  

You see, each tiny step, is a chance to congratulate the child on success.  We so often try to teach the whole process at  once, and meet with failure and resistance for days and even weeks.  With this method, there is almost nothing but success after success, and the child is eager to learn and show off the next step.

When the above steps are mastered, proceed to pushing the string through that spot where the string is wrapped around.  This is always the hardest part.  But only push it through.  That is the part for congratulations.

When wrapping around and pushing the string through are mastered, then show how to let go, and grab that piece that is poking through.

Lastly, the child learns to  pull on both loops and even them out.  Very often, even a 3-year-old can do this quite easily, but you'll find 6 and 7-year olds who balk at it because of former frustrations, or someone is trying to go too fast, or is too impatient.

Even if you do just one tiny step a day, you master shoe-tying for life, in a week, with no tears or upset.