My daughter came home from a friend’s house one day not too long ago with a bracelet made from small, interlocking, colorful rubber bands. Soon she had another made by another friend. Then another ...

Rainbow Loom friendship bracelets are the new fad among school-aged children. They're little elastics that can be linked to make bracelets, which are then passed around among friends. “My daughter ...

The loom is intended for “6 and up,” but Brycen, the aforementioned nephew, is persuasive, and in my family, there is always a fallback position: Joan will figure it out. Sure enough, I stopped in for ...

This rule is a stretch! An Upper West Side elementary-school principal is banning colorful rubber-band bracelets, claiming the jewelry-making fad is a classroom distraction that causes fights on the ...

In September, when Greta Arcudi bought her daughter a bracelet-making kit called the Rainbow Loom, her son, Jake, was a little miffed because he wanted one, too. So she bought him one. "He's way into ...

Friendship bracelets? Silly Bandz? Those are SO yesterday. This year's hot trend with the elementary school set is Rainbow Loom bracelets. But you probably already know this if you have a young girl ...

Kids are making "friendship" bracelets from tiny multi-colored rubber bands. Stores can't keep the supplies in stock. (Sue Gleiter, PennLive.com) For a Monday evening the A.C. Moore craft store in ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A popular new fad has been rubber banned. A school on the Upper West Side has banned Rainbow Loom, the colorful make-them-yourself rubber band bracelets, because they are ...

First, PS 87 on the Upper West Side banned them—now Brooklyn's PS 107 has put the kibosh on Rainbow Loom bracelet-making kits, because students are way too invested in making their own rubbery ...

Though kids can't assert dominance over one another with, say, the United States budget, they tap their sadistic power-grubbing potential pretty early on, using sticker books, gel pens and elusive ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Bracelets and other trinkets made on the wildly popular Rainbow Loom—a toy that ...