1. How to Tie Your Shoes! By: Shawn and Joelle

2. Step 1: Take one lace in each hand and make an X. Draw the top lace through the bottom of the X and pull the two laces tight. Then make a loop out of each lace.

3. Step 2: Cross one "ear" over the other, in the opposite order of your overhand knot.

4. Step 3: Explain how "the bunny runs around the tree“ by bending one loop over the other.

5. Step 4: Now "the bunny sees a dog and jumps in the hole.” Pass the tip of the bent ear through the hole.

6. Step 5: Pull loops tight. For extra security, you can double the knot by making another overhand knot with the loops.

7. Fun Songs That Help You Tie That Perfect Knot Teepee Tying 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!

8. 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!

9. And that’s how we tie our shoes!

10. Resources How to Tie a shoe. (n.d.). Wonder Time: The Joys of Parenting Young Children, Retrieved from http://wondertime.go.com/learning/article/how-to-tie- shoes.html There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Corbis. (2010). Retrieved February 22, 2010, from Discovery Education: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ Tying shoes. (2000). Retrieved from http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/shoes.html

11. Special Thanks to Jack Johnson for providing the background music for the slide show. Couldn’t have done it without you Jack!