How to Teach Kids to Tie Their Shoes (Fast!)

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How to Teach Kids to Tie Their Shoes (Fast!)

Greg Santucci
Published on June 17, 2025

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Discover two simple shoe-tying methods that help kids who struggle with traditional techniques finally master this skill in minutes!

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 You have to have your shoe tied when you're adventuring on a bike also, and you have to be able to tie them fast. Great guys, wait for me. I'm coming. This is the way where you can tie your shoes really quickly and they won't come untied. Cool. So I already rigged up this one. We're making the bunny ears already made.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the shoelace, stick it through the top loop, and I'm gonna tie a little knot just so that it stays. So the bunny ears are already made, so you don't have to make them. Now, this bunny in particular, he is not good at listening. His ears are always closed, so you are going to make sure that these ears stay closed.

Okay, you are going to make an X with the bunny ears. There's a big hole right here. You're gonna loop it under and pull it down. One more time. Make an x, loop it under. Pull it down. You have a double knot, and that's not gonna come untied for weeks. So, if you already know how to tie your shoes, but they keep coming undone, this is a way to make sure that they stay tied. So a lot of times we make an X, we tuck it under and we pull it down, and then we start making our loops, our bunny ears, or we wrap it around and this gets really loose and that's why shoes come untied. So here's what we're gonna do instead, you're gonna make an X, you're gonna do a loopty loop, and then you're gonna do a hoopty hoop.

You're gonna wrap it around twice, and when you pull it down, that's gonna be tight. However you tie your shoes, then. It will stay tight. Now, if you really wanna make sure that they come on tight, that they stay tied, you can do it three times. You can do the loopty loop, you can do the hoopty hoop, you can do the poopty poop, and you can tie it tight, and that is not gonna come undone.

And then you can finish tying the shoe however you know how. But this shoe is not gonna come untied for weeks.

About the Creator

Greg Santucci

Founding Director of Power Play Pediatric Therapy | Pediatric Occupational Therapist | Dedicated to providing neurodevelopmentally informed therapy and educating parents and professionals with compassionate, collaborative, and brain-based strategies to support children of all abilities.

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