How to Tie Shoes Left Handed

For those who are left-handed, it can be difficult to tie shoes because directions require dexterity in your right hand that you may not have. Some may use Velcro until learning this process or being shown by others. The following tips will help those with left-handed children.

Things You'll Need

• Shoes with laces

Instructions

Tying Shoes Left-Handed

1. Grab one lace in each hand and pull the laces as tight as you would like your shoes to feel.

2. Cross the lace in your left hand over the top of the lace in your right hand while you cross the lace in your right hand under the lace in your left hand.The lace that was in your right hand should now be on the left side; the lace in your left hand should now be on the right side. It will probably help to put the laces down once they are on crossed over each other, with the lace that started on the left side on the top.

3. Uncross your hands and pick up the lace that is now on the left side with the left hand, and pick up the lace that is on the right side with the right hand.

4. Push the lace in your left hand through the top of the crossed laces so that the laces form a knot, and pull the knot tight.

5. Move your hands down so that they are holding the laces close to the knot.This adjustment is especially important for young children just learning to tie shoes because they tend to tie them loosely, which makes shoes come untied easily.

6. Stick out the index finger of your right hand while still holding the laces, and loop the lace in your left hand around this finger. Pinch the loop between your left index finger and thumb close to the knot.

7. Remove your right index finger from the middle of the loop that you are holding in your left hand and regain your grip on the lace in the right hand.

8. Circle the lace in your right hand around the base of the loop in your left hand in a sweeping motion that moves up toward your body and then back away from your body. This motion should make an imaginary "C" around the looped lace in your left hand that starts at the bottom of the C on the right side. The middle of the C with be on the left side of the looped lace, and the top of the C will be back on the right side of the looped lace.

9. Push the lace in your right hand, which you just circled around the looped lace in your left hand, into the space between your left index finger and thumb while releasing the looped lace that you have been holding since Step 6.

10. Grab the looped lace that you just released from your left hand with the right hand while pulling through the lace that you just placed in your left hand from your right hand. Do this until the two loops that are now formed are of about equal size and the resulting bow tie is tight.