PARENTS WE NEED HELP WITH RUNNERS' CHIPS

Runners will be competing with chips on their shoes this Saturday. The chips need to be placed in the middle of the tongue of the shoe (so the chip doesn't dig into runners' feet during the race). It should look like this:

The challenge will be getting all these chips on all these shoes, and the kids will be nervous and their minds will be focused on racing. Here's what we're thinking:

We found a YOUTUBE video that shows the chips being put on using twist-ties. The alternative would be to untie every kid's shoelaces, putting the chip in, then re-lacing the shoes. This will be time-consuming for everyone, and we don't want to add any undue stress on race day.

So, we were hoping to recruit as many parent volunteers as possible. You can take a kid's shoe, place the twist ties through the laces of the shoe, then loop the twist ties through the chip and then twist them together. This is a lot faster and if we all work together we can get the kids off to the start line and ready to race.

Here's a video of what we want to do...we want to try the FIRST way, which lasts until the 40-second mark:

Putting On Runners' Chips