CASSELTON, N.D. - Lauren Oberholtzer’s fingers fly as she methodically weaves an intricate pattern out of colorful rubber bands. Within minutes the Casselton 10-year-old has created a fun, stretchy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Rainbow Loom trend, some have said, is over. The plastic loom with the tiny, colorful rubber bands used by tweens to make bracelets, rings, even flip-flops, was declared dead last Christmas, due ...

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 ...

LADERA RANCH – Fearing she might have snuffed out opportunities for students to express themselves, Ladera Ranch Elementary School Principal Amy Bryant on Monday reversed a ban on popular rubber band ...

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 ...

I thought 600 rubber bands would be more than enough to keep my eight-year-old busy this summer making the modern-day version of friendship bracelets with her new Rainbow Loom. If you don't know what ...

Learn how to make elastic bracelets with Loom Bands. A simple, creative project that’s great for beginners and a fun way to pass the time. If you've ever wondered what to do with a pile of loom bands, ...