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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – If you have kids, chances are they are obsessed with the Rainbow Loom. It's been flying off the store shelves and kids all over western Pennsylvania have been busy making rubber ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was delighted to see the Duchess of Cornwall wearing a Rainbow Loom bracelet on her Canadian tour (pictured below). Since Camilla is the grandmother of a seven-year-old girl, my suspicions are that ...

ST. CLOUD, Minnesota — It's nearing bedtime for Farrah and Orly Reese and the sisters are surrounded by balls of yarn in their St. Cloud home. "We do this every night while we listen to a book," Orly, ...

The Rainbow Loom is the latest toy craze, and the rubber bracelets it makes are showing up on powerful men from Governor Chris Christie to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who say they can't say no to a ...

A girl works on a Rainbow Loom at her home in Wichita. The toy, engineered by two former Wichita State students, has become wildly popular and inspired several copycat versions. Travis Heying File ...