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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An Upper West Side elementary school ...