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 ...

Elementary and middle schools in the Pittsburgh area are flooded with a new toy. Girls and boys are spending hours creating bracelets and other things with the Rainbow Loom."It's a phenomenon,” said ...

A company that sells Rainbow Loom, a toy that transforms colorful rubber bands into intricate bracelets, key chains, rings and accessories, rose from humble beginnings to a profitable pop culture ...

Toni Notarangeli thought she’d misheard when her 8-year-old son Angelo begged her for a toy he just had to have: a plastic loom that helps kids weave colorful rubber band bracelets. Angelo likes to ...

Beloved by kids and the bane of parents and teachers, Loom Bands – or Rainbow Loom - is the playground craze that has taken over the planet. But what are they, and where did they come from? Chances ...

1. Wind a white band around two pencils in a figure of eight, keeping the pencils close together. 2. Now push two more bands (we used a yellow one followed by an orange one) over the pencils without ...

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 ...

1. For the bracelet, work a total of six flowers in the colour sequence pink–green–lilac–pink–green–lilac. Start with six pink bands for the first flower. Stretch a pink band from peg 1M across to 1L ...