How to lace shoes: lattice

Learning to tie shoelaces is an important developmental milestone for kids, but what about lacing up your shoes? Did you know there are more than 30 different ways of lacing shoes? Try teaching your kids this fancy lattice style of shoe lacing.

What you need:

• 1 x pair of lace up shoes with at least four pairs of eyelets

Number of players:
1

Activity:

Watch the how-to video below to find out how to do the lattice shoe lacing method.

Lattice lacing

Start with the lace running straight along the bottom pair of eyelets, inside to outside.

Cross the ends over each other and run then diagonally up to the fourth set of eyelets up. (Skip two sets.)

Now run each end straight up, on the inside, to the next eyelet up.

Cross the ends over and go diagonally down, feeding the laces from outside in, through the third lower set (skip two).

Run both ends straight up, on the inside to emerge through the next set of eyelets.

Cross over and go diagonally up to feed the laces through the top eyelets, from inside to outside.