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Learn to tie a bow
Intended for preschool and grades 1 and 2
The bow in pictures, step by step: with bunny ears or with one loop. Plus a practice shoe made of cardboard and a certificate to print.
Both start with the same knot. Bunny ears: make an ear from each end and knot the ears. One loop: lay one end into a loop, wrap the other around it and push it through.
With the left and right arrow keys you can also page through when this box is selected. One end is smooth (orange), the other striped (blue). In print the smooth end is white.
All steps
To print
All steps of the chosen method on one A4 sheet to hang up, with method and mirroring as above.
At most 120 characters. The PDF font does not know emoji and some letters of other languages.
The outline is 19 cm or 23.5 cm long. This is a practice shoe, not a shoe size.
To color in: stripes, zigzag and dots as lines, no black areas.
At most 40 characters.
At most 40 characters. Leave empty for a line to write on. The name stays in your browser; the PDF contains it and is made only on your device.
Leave empty for an empty date line.
There is a line for the signature at the bottom right. To sign on a phone: save the PDF and add the signature at /en/pdf/sign/.
The preview appears right away.
When printing, choose Actual size or 100%, not “Fit to page”. Afterward, check the 5 cm line at the bottom of the sheet with a ruler.
Your browser remembers nothing. Save method, mirroring, shoe, rhyme and certificate as a file on your device. The file takes the name along only if one is entered.
Goes well with: Craft templates · Practice writing (German) · Coloring page
Pictures and PDFs are made here in your browser. Name and settings do not leave your device and are not stored anywhere.
How it works
- 01Choose a method and click through the steps, ideally together with the child and a real shoe next to you.
- 02Set up the instructions to hang up, the practice shoe or the certificate. The preview shows the sheet right away.
- 03Download the PDF and print. Print the practice shoe at actual size, glue it onto cardboard, cut it out and punch the holes.
The pictures. Every step is a drawing that the tool builds from lines. One end of the shoelace is smooth, the other striped, so you can always see which one is meant. Where one piece lies under another, its line is interrupted. The arrows show the movement, a dashed circle shows where the fingers hold on. Hands are not drawn.
Two methods. Both start with the same knot: cross, tuck the upper end under the cross, pull tight. With bunny ears you then make an ear from each end and knot the ears the same way. With one loop you lay one end into a loop, wrap the other once around it and push it through the hole. Which method is easier varies from child to child; try both.
Mirrored. The switch reverses all pictures and swaps left and right in the sentences. This helps when you sit opposite a child, or for left-handers. Whether learning gets easier this way has not been proven.
Practice shoe. A shoe outline from above with 4, 5 or 6 pairs of holes. Every hole is a mark 6 mm across with a cross, numbered from the toe. Between two holes and from a hole to the edge, at least 5 mm of cardboard remains. The holes sit further in than an office hole punch reaches: use a punch pliers or a hole punch tool; an adult does this. The sizes “small” and “large” are not shoe sizes, just two lengths of the outline.
Certificate. Heading (up to 40 characters), name (up to 40 characters, otherwise a line to write on), optionally a date, a line for the signature, a frame made of a wavy shoelace and a small bow. A very long name is set smaller and, if it still does not fit, shortened; the preview says so.
Limits. The font on the sheets is Helvetica. Characters it does not know (emoji, some letters of other languages) are named by the field, and the PDF is only made after you change them. Whether the dimensions are right depends on the printer: measure the 5 cm line.
Nothing is saved. Children’s names are personal data. They stay in your browser until you close the page. “Save to a file” creates a JSON file on your device; the name is only in it if you entered one. “Load from file” reads it back in, a file from another tool is rejected.