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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...