1. Wind one lilac band around the hook three times. 6. Pick up another pair of lilac bands and repeat steps 2–6. You have now made your first petal. Slide the petal onto the handle of the hook. 10.

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 ...

Last week we featured a gallery of readers' loom band designs as the new craze continued to sweep through Merseyside. But photographs of your incredible creations have continued to flood in, ...

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"Loom bands" have been taking over playgrounds and living rooms as children from many different countries weave the tiny rubber bands into bracelets and other designs. But what makes them so popular?

As with so many good ideas, someone always has to take it too far. On the evidence of these photos - which, once seen, cannot be unseen - loom bands may have reached that point. Every year, a baffling ...

WE’VE had our fair share of primary school age crazes in our house, from Silly Bandz to Moshi Monsters figures. Now the kids have gone loopy for loom bands – the new must-have toy. These are tiny ...

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 ...