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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...