HARTFORD — Although rubber band bracelets are a trend at their school, Keeley Joyal and Lindsay Masamery had more than fashion in mind when they started making the bracelets by the dozen. On Thursday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They fit snugly around your wrist, are in the shapes of your favorite animals or objects and are so popular in Birmingham that they're difficult to find on store shelves. They're called Silly Bandz, ...