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 ...

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 ...

An Upper West Side elementary school has banned the popular Rainbow Loom friendship bracelets from the premises because the principal says children are getting distracted in class and fighting over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TONI Notarangeli thought she’d misheard when her eight-year-old son Angelo begged her for a toy he just had to have: a plastic loom that helps kids weave colourful rubber band bracelets. Angelo likes ...

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 ...

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 ...