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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was cleaning out a junk drawer in my childhood bedroom when I found something surprising: a clear plastic bag filled with teal rubber bands, all about 1/4 inch in diameter, with the brand name, ...

Sharon Lighton, the owner of Anana Gifts, sells kits for children to make rubber band bracelets, which are a very popular trend right now. She has bought 14.7 million rubber bands to sell at her store ...

When kids really like a toy, it can take over the playground and cause such a distraction that schools feel the need to prohibit it. It’s happened in the past with Pokeman cards. And Silly Bandz. The ...