Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about global education, game-based learning, kids, & culture. Rainbow Loom is not just a craft set. It may also be a ...

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 ...

Though kids can't assert dominance over one another with, say, the United States budget, they tap their sadistic power-grubbing potential pretty early on, using sticker books, gel pens and elusive ...

Moveover, Silly Bandz and slap bracelets. A new must-have accessory is adorning the wrists of tweens and teens: the Rainbow Loom bangle. Children make the colorful bracelets using small rubber bands ...

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 ...

After a patent battle between makers of a C-clasp that lets kids connect loops of rubber brands to loom bracelets was described in the Wall Street Journal recently, I was again reminded of the big ...

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 ...