Top tips for teaching kids to tie laces?

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I’m terrible and demonstrating or explains that kind of thing. Any recommendations for good YouTube videos or other tricks that have worked? My eldest is dyspraxic so we already know this is hard for him but he’s about to go into yr7 and he also has massive feet so the age of Velcro is drawing to a close.

My opening line should say ‘I’m terrible AT demonstrating or EXPLAINING that kind of thing!’

Use the bunny ears method, tie the laces, loop the end and tie the loops like you did the laces. Like this https://raisingchildren.net.au/preschoolers/health-daily-care/dressing/shoelaces

There's a little cardboard shoe you can get in smyths. It's got laces and pictures to show kids what to do. It's how half the kids in our family learned.

Following as my nearly 10!year old can’t tie laces despite my best efforts. He struggles with fine motor skills and I’ve tried different methods and shortcuts but he really struggles with his dexterity.

Sit side by side, not opposite each other, so you are doing things the right way.

Practice with laces of different colours, so you can say 'blue' and 'red' instead of left and right.

10-15mins daily. Repetition is key.

This is our method for teaching our Cubs any knot, not just laces.

Repetition repetition repetition on a small board

My ds is about to go into y7 and is dyspraxia amongst many other things

He just wears elastic laces though 😆 with a little metal
Screw tie, so Al shoes become slip ons

Backwards chaining.
you tie, he does the last step. Once he can do that, you start, he does the last two steps etc until he's doing them by himself.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJqbq2Ee/

This is a great hack! My 8 year old only had to try a few times and got it x

DS really struggled and we sat side by side with long laces, each one a different colour so he could "see" and I did it very, very slowly, a tiny step at a time, asking him to copy everything I did. I kept doing this until I was chunking steps together and speeding up in increments.

I have this book and both my DC learned from tying the laces on this book. But they were a lot younger. I don’t know if a 11yo will think it’s childish? Worth a try.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Collection-Shoelaces-Tell-Years/dp/9526535650