Abstract: An educational device for teaching one to lace shoes comprising a pair of panel members hingedly secured to a base to simulate the side flaps of a lace-up shoe. Areas along the edges of the flaps around the holes are two colors alternately arranged and each end of the shoestring is colored to match one of the hole designation colors, whereby the shoe is laced by threading the shoestring through openings of like colors. Crossed lines of the same colors are placed on the base member to direct crossing of the lace ends and a spot directs placement of a finger to loop the first half of a bow.