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 ...

The warning comes as four children were treated at the same hospital in just one week when the rubber bands became lodged up their noses Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...

Rainbow Loom is not just a craft set. It may also be a portal to digital literacy. When I recently bought Rainbow Looms for my two sons (6 and 8), I discovered that this is really a tangible/virtual ...

THEY are the fad of the summer - with brightly coloured packets available in every corner store around the country and children of all ages feverishly weaving them into complicated bracelets. However, ...

Parents who are sick of vacuuming up the little blighters from under the sofa have US entreprenur Cheong Choon Ng to thank. His daughters were fond of making bracelets by weaving elastic bands over ...

For millions of school children they are a must-have fashion accessory. Footballer David Beckham and Britain's Prince William have sported them. Loom bands - colorful rubber bands woven together into ...

Loom band charms have been taken off the Maltese market after being found to contain dangerous levels of a toxic chemical. The little bands – a craze which has taken over Europe and the US including ...

LAST weekend in Fair Harbor, N.Y., on Fire Island, a few dozen children gathered on the boardwalk for the local tradition of selling lemonade, baked goods and painted seashells to passers-by at sunset ...