Abstract: A method for manufacturing foam material for shoes includes the steps of acquiring coconut shells, crushing the coconut shells into small pieces, grinding the coconut shell pieces into coconut fiber powder, mixing the coconut fiber powder with glue as well as foaming material, making the mixture of the coconut fiber powder and the foaming material foam in molds, and finishing, in which the foam mixture are cut into insoles of shoes after having been taken out of the molds, and in which middle soles and outsoles of shoes are directly formed in those the molds that are used for making middle soles and outsoles.