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 ...

TOLUCA LAKE (CBS) — Rubber band bracelets in all kinds of shapes and sizes are the hot new fashion trend with lots of kids, but can the popular bracelets pose a danger? "He went to bed one night and ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines–While those trendy loom bands may not be toxic, they can still pose a hazard to humans and their pets. Animal welfare advocates and environmentalists on Sunday reminded weavers and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Lara Cassano has 40 of them; her big sister, Francesca, 60. Samantha Perham owns 121 and Nicole Weinberg, 180. But the queen of Bandz bracelets, the girl classmates secretly envy ...

My daughter is five and she loves these stretchy rubber band bracelets that look like animals and other things when you take them off. She trades them with her friends and wears them all the time. She ...

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, ...

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 ...

There’s no Olympic medal for making rubber band bracelets or bad puns, which is too bad because Valentine’s Day falls right in the middle of the 2014 Winter Games. I tried to persuade my 9-year-old to ...

Little arms draped in colored, rubber bands became a common sight in school classrooms almost overnight. “They just appeared one day,” said Pete Belcher, a fourth-grade teacher at Bellaire Elementary ...