Comments on: 6 Creative Ways to Teach Kids Left from Right https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=right-vs-left Empowering teachers with the tools, training, and support you need to help EVERY student learn to read. Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Janet https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-487667 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-487667 Great idea!

]]> By: Jordan https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-422316 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-422316 Nice Ideas

]]> By: Numeracy resources – poppypeaches https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-349256 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-349256 […] 6 Creative Ways to Teach Kids Left from Right […]

]]> By: Ashley https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-339546 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-339546 In reply to renee.

So glad you love it, Renee!
Hope your three year old does too!
Warmly,
Ashley // Happiness Ambassador

]]> By: renee https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-339458 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-339458 I love the nail polish and name idea in shoes! My three old will love this…plus any excuse to paint her nails!

]]> By: Kimberleigh https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-251161 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-251161 In reply to Nancy Baker.

Hooray Nancy! I am so glad that you found the information useful.
Have a wonderful week.
Warmly,
Kimberleigh

]]> By: Nancy Baker https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-251007 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-251007 This is great! Thanks for sharing!!!

]]> By: Karin LaPierre https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-210062 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-210062 I could not get the video to work, either. Is there another link to it?
Thank you so much,
Karin LaPierre

]]> By: Val https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-187081 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-187081 Thank You so much for the half name shoe idea! My 5 year old son has mild autism and he gets very upset when he cant get his shoes on right, I think this is just the idea we needed!!!!

]]> By: Elisa https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-86728 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-86728 Thanks for this. My son is 5 and has no problem with his shoes, but he still has an issue with telling his left from his right. Tonight I tried “smelly hand” with apple lip balm and he LOVED it. He sniffed it and said, “Mmmm.”

I told him to say, “mmm, my right hand” every time he sniffed it, which he thought was wildly funny. He kept sniffing and saying “Mmmm, my right hand, ” all night. The best part about this is that instead of a visual cue, where he can just look down and see it, this prompts a hand motion that is reinforced with an olfactory sensation, so it involves more than one sense. i am very confident that he will have it down in a few days. Thanks!!

]]> By: Malia Hollowell https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-47366 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-47366 In reply to Rosie.

Aww!! Thank you, Rosie!

]]> By: Rosie https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-41266 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-41266 Your post is great! Will share with all mamas!

]]> By: Bambi https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-19264 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-19264 You can also put dots on the inside of the shoes above the arch and teach your kids if they can pick the shoes up with ONE hand and their finger and thumb are on the dots, they will always be on the correct feet.

]]> By: Lefts and Rights https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-19206 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-19206 I put R and L stickers inside my son’s shoes to get him to wear his shoes correctly.

He promptly switched the stickers and continues wearing them the “wrong” way.

]]> By: Candice https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-14941 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-14941 This is awesome! My 3 year old has had a tough time with his shoes. He is also left handed and says he is “backwards” from everybody else in his class. lol But I am thinking with the name tape in the shoes and starting with the left side, we may just get it down pat! Thanks for the motivation! I do believe you just gained a follower!!!

]]> By: Malia https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-10668 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-10668 In reply to Marla B..

Great tip, Maria! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

]]> By: Malia https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-10667 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-10667 In reply to Claire.

I love Noirin’s awesome tips for teaching left and right too, Claire! Thanks for passing it along to your friends. 🙂

]]> By: Emily https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-10657 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-10657 I remember one of my teachers telling us in primary school to hold up both of our hands so that the fingers were straight up and the thumb was perpendicular to them. The one that makes an L is Left

]]> By: Kirstylee https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-10616 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-10616 My 5 year old has slowly been learning the difference between right and left, but I just figured it would take time. I never realized there were so many great tricks to teach him! I’ll start today and hopefully he’ll have it down as fast as your daughter. 🙂

]]> By: Claire https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-10575 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-10575 This post is AWESOME! Can’t wait to try these and share with all the parents I know!! 🙂

]]> By: Marla B. https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/right-vs-left/#comment-10569 https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/?p=8549#comment-10569 I learned my shoes from my mom telling me to look at the arch in the sole. If it made a circle shape when next to each other they were in order, if it made an x, they were wrong. I am a visual learner and the first born so I picked up on things pretty fast watching all of the adults around me.

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