Combined sport shoe and educational device

A sport shoe construction which includes, in combination therewith, a novel educational device for teaching a wearer to lace and tie the shoes. The sport shoe and educational device includes a plurality of paired eyelets which are adapted to be threaded or laced through by shoelaces, and with numerical indicia or color coding being associated with each eyelet providing intelligence for the proper sequence to be employed in lacing and tying the shoe. Furthermore, the shoes also include on the foxing tapes thereof correlative pictorial, color coded and grammatical instructional indicia setting forth, in sequential steps along the lengths of the foxing tapes, the proper procedure for lacing the shoelaces through the eyelets in the successive order of the numerical indicia or color coding associated with each eyelet.