I'm trying to teach my 5 year old to tie his shoes but I'm not having any luck. He really wants to learn. Any tried and true techniques that worked for you???
Thanks for any help!

This probably is of no help, but I learned to tie my shoe by making the initial knot, then making both strings into loops, and making the same kind of knot.

When I taught my girls how to make that first knot, I said that if they did it right, the strings look like a pretzel. KWIM?

Good luck! What an ambitious boy! It's almost a lost art form these days, what with velcro and all...

Both of my kids learn by repeating the bunny song ....Since he is a boy maybe the Teepee verse & using different color shoe laces would be better.

Make a teepee. Come inside.
Pull down tight so we can hide.
Around the mountain... here we go!
Here's my arrow. Here's my bow.



Criss Cross Tying Shoes
(tune: Splish Splash I was taking a Bath)

Criss Cross and go under the bridge
Then you got to pull it tight.
Make a loop but keep a long tail
That is how to do it right
Then you take the other string
and you wrap it 'round the loop
Pull it through the hole
Now you got the scoop

Criss Cross and go under the bridge (this is where you tie the loops together)
Now you made a Double Knot!

Teepee Tying

Use different colored shoe laces so that you can cue the child on which side they should be working with at a given step In the poem below each line corresponds to one step of the tying process.

Build a tee pee
Come inside
Close it tight so we can hide
Over the mountain
And around we go
Here's my arrow
And here's my bow!

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That is so hard to teach! I taught my girls just by doing it over and over and over and over and over, LOL...you get the point! My youngest finally learned one day at school. She got in the car and said "look".... her best friend showed her how to do it and it finally clicked. After months of me showing her, it took her friend ONE time...sigh....joys of parenthood!
I'd say just keep trying, he will get it.

Here is the song my kids learned. There is a learn to tie book that looks like a shoe and has real (colored) laces to practice. This worked wonders for my kids.

X marks the spot one swings below
make sure it's tight before you go

one lace loops to the side
the other one takes a round about ride

Push the middle through the hole
pull both loops to reach your goal

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The bunny method is good too.

first tie the first tie
then make two loops like bunny ears
and tie the bunny ears together

(You can see this method in use on the movie BIG DADDY, with Adam Sandler. Goofy, I know, but it works)

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This is the way that my grandmother taught my DD to tie her shoes!!! I tried and tried to teach her and she went over to her house one afternoon and within three hours, she was tying her own shoes!!!

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Try coloring half of the shoe lace a diffrent color, and use the bunny loop ears when tying the knot. With two different colors they can see easier how it should look when it is tie correctly. This worked lake a charm for my youngest DS.

I agree with using the different colors. I taught my neice YEARS ago that way and she taught her kids that way too. I used nail polish to color them since it also make them stiff and easier to control.

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Doesn't it just irritate you!!

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I found with my grandson that trying to tie the shoe with him in it was not workig, because what I was doing was backwards for him. Once we practiced with the shoe off and both of us on the same side of the shoe, he seemed to catch on faster.