If you have little girls, I’m sure you’ve seen the “princess shoes” like we have.  Silly, cheap pieces of plastic – but my daughters love them.  Even the toddler.

Problem is, they are slippery.  Livia shuffles along in them, and then her feet go sliding off to the side, and I was concerned that one of these days they might even cause her to fall down the stairs.  (!)  So I decided to make them slip-resistant.  Here were my supplies:

(I also used a pair of scissors.)  The shoes, and a package of bathtub decals that were one of Amazon’s new “add-on” items.  (I tried for ages to find this sort of bathtub decal locally, without success.  I could only find the more 3-dimensional things.)  They look like this:

See how there’s an inner and an outer piece?  I popped them apart and then cut the petals apart.  (I did some more trimming of the shapes afterward.  Next time I’ll know to just do that all at once.)

Then I just peeled the backing and stuck them onto the shoes.  (Actually, that’s not precisely true.  Since my girls have been using their shoes already, I cleaned the bottoms first with rubbing alcohol and let them dry thoroughly.  If they were new, I wouldn’t have bothered.)  The reviews of these decals at Amazon say that they didn’t stay stuck well, but I’m guessing that since they aren’t soaking in a bathtub they’ll be just fine.  If they do fall off, well, I’ll just superglue them on.  So far, though, they’ve held up just fine.

I did both of these shoes with one decal “sheet,” and still had some pieces left over, so a package of decals should do plenty of shoes!

Helping my kids avoid falling works for me. 🙂

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