Loom bands are taking the world by storm – and it’s not hard to see why. Rainbow-coloured and cheap, kids and adults can have hours of fun putting together flash designs with these bright pieces of ...

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.

Why are "loom bands" one of the most popular toys in the world at the moment? In this era of babies playing with tablets and young teenagers living and breathing social media, it seems curious to find ...

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, ...

The trend for clothing made out of a simple children's toy began to grow after one woman made a dress of rubber bands. Loom bands - small rubber bands linked together to make bracelets and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The loom bands would snap, some were less flexible and then once I'd loomed them into strips and wound them into spirals I had to work out how to hold them together," said Kelly Bull The designer of ...

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 ...