Good preschool shoes

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I learned today that DS's isn't allowed to wear closed-toes sandals (they were SKR). He needs fully closed shoes. Any brand recs? With Amazon prime preferred, we have no shoe stores here except Target. Are there decent shoe options there right now?

Ashley&Scott undecidedowl farmvillelover

[humpforfree]

Target has the stride rite shoes right now. We have liked the sneakers for L.

[jeaniebueller]

I was going to say Stride Rite shoes are our favorite, but it looks like you are limiting it to Target.

[Ashley&Scott]

I love, love, love these Nike's that I got for M last month. They are holding up so much better than his SKR sneakers. 


M loves them too, he almost never wears his SKR sneakers anymore, which is a bummer since I have 1 or 2 pairs in his closet in the next size up.. 

He has the navy/orange ones pictured above, I might get him the grey/orange too. We'll see. 

[Ashley&Scott]

@supergreen doesn't he have any sneakers you could send him in? Or did he just have sandals for the summer?

[meltoine]

I got the Target stride rites for DS1 for this year. He loves them and they're cute.

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Aug 31, 2015 14:46:39 GMT -5 Ashley&Scott said:

@supergreen doesn't he have any sneakers you could send him in? Or did he just have sandals for the summer?

He just has sandals for the summer, they're size 10.5. I have the next size up SKR sneakers in a 12, and they are hilariously big. Like clown shoes. So he needs sneakers in a 10.5 or 11.

[Ashley&Scott]

Aug 31, 2015 14:57:59 GMT -5 @supergreen said:

Aug 31, 2015 14:46:39 GMT -5 Ashley&Scott said:

@supergreen doesn't he have any sneakers you could send him in? Or did he just have sandals for the summer?

He just has sandals for the summer, they're size 10.5. I have the next size up SKR sneakers in a 12, and they are hilariously big. Like clown shoes. So he needs sneakers in a 10.5 or 11.

Gotcha. If you get the Nike's I linked you'll want to size down .5 from whatever he wears in SKR. (ie- M wears 12 SKR sneakers & 11.5 Nikes)

[dcn]

Ds has a pair of saucony sneakers (not jazz) that have been great. Those or stride rite are always our go to.

[picksthemusic]

Another Stride Rite lover. They have them at Target now.

[sparty04]

I like saucony and tsukihoshi. DS has a wide foot and they both offer good options. I usually buy off amazon or at Burlington Coat Factory

[Deleted]

I'd just buy what ever tennis shoes are on sale on Amazon.

It's usually some combo of Saucony (loved here), Stride Rite, Nike, so decent enough options.

I wouldn't stress over prek shoes.

[SpartanGirl]

I usually buy Saucony but I was not impressed with them last year. All 4 pairs I bought had holes before Christmas.

We buy cheap shoes for preschool. The pea gravel on the playground absolutely destroys shoes (and pants and coats and boots...).

[annieh22]

Tsukuhoshi here as well.

I may have spelled it wrong.

[lilac05]

We had great luck with New Balance here, too! He wore them every day last year & they still look great! The toes on cheaper shoes usually get scuffed & gross, but these still almost look like new.  These: www.amazon.com/New-Balance-KV513GOY-Running-Little/dp/B00O92QVCQ/ref=sr_1_54?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1441072774&sr=1-54&keywords=New+balance+boys (but they were about $30)

We also had a great experience with Fila.
 mobile.kohls.com/product/prd-2070037/fila-volcanic-runner-boys-running-shoes.jsp

[loskadoodle]

Aug 31, 2015 14:45:22 GMT -5 Ashley&Scott said:

I love, love, love these Nike's that I got for M last month. They are holding up so much better than his SKR sneakers. 


M loves them too, he almost never wears his SKR sneakers anymore, which is a bummer since I have 1 or 2 pairs in his closet in the next size up.. 

He has the navy/orange ones pictured above, I might get him the grey/orange too. We'll see. 

We just bought these for ds1 yesterday!

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Aug 31, 2015 15:03:57 GMT -5 Ashley&Scott said:

Aug 31, 2015 14:57:59 GMT -5 @supergreen said:

He just has sandals for the summer, they're size 10.5. I have the next size up SKR sneakers in a 12, and they are hilariously big. Like clown shoes. So he needs sneakers in a 10.5 or 11.

Gotcha. If you get the Nike's I linked you'll want to size down .5 from whatever he wears in SKR. (ie- M wears 12 SKR sneakers & 11.5 Nikes)

I'm having a hard time paying $55 for shoes DS is going to take off and fill up with sand KWIM? I don't want cheap Payless shoes that fall apart, but $55 is what I pay for my own shoes.

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We got a pair of target sneakers not stride rite sneakers and they have held up surprisingly well for a rough boy who loves to scooter I just avoided the character ones.

[Ashley&Scott]

Aug 31, 2015 21:45:24 GMT -5 @supergreen said:

Aug 31, 2015 15:03:57 GMT -5 Ashley&Scott said:

Gotcha. If you get the Nike's I linked you'll want to size down .5 from whatever he wears in SKR. (ie- M wears 12 SKR sneakers & 11.5 Nikes)

I'm having a hard time paying $55 for shoes DS is going to take off and fill up with sand KWIM? I don't want cheap Payless shoes that fall apart, but $55 is what I pay for my own shoes.

Shoes are buy one get one half off at Famous Footwear if that helps. I wasn't excited about the price either but they were the only shoe M liked. He really wanted orange. I really wanted a flexible show that he wanted to wear. With the sale they weren't really much more than SKR.

I've seen some of M's classmates with similar C9 Champion shoes from Target. Payless also had a similar line with a flexible sole. I think they were both in the $20-25 range.

Whatever you get I would strongly advise against laces. m's last pair of sneakers had laces, they were always coming untied (even with double knots) which was annoying.

[Ashley&Scott]

@supergreen SKR started their Labor Day sale of you are still looking for shoes.

[redheadk]

Amazon has 20% additional off some styles with LABORDAY20. Looks like they have some sneakers. www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_ex_n_4?rh=n%3A7141123011%2Cn%3A12565532011%2Cn%3A7147443011%2Cn%3A679182011%2Cp_6%3AATVPDKIKX0DER&bbn=12565532011&ie=UTF8&qid=1441233077&lo=fashion-boys

[SJ]

Stride Rite or Toms.

Oh you said preschool, not daycare. Sorry but probably same answer?

[whitepicketfence]

DD2 wears a combination of SKR, Stride Rite, Sketchers Twinkle Toes, and Livie & Luca. We own entirely too many shoes LOL