The latest fashion trend among primary school children worldwide is wristbands made of brightly coloured elastic bands. Loom bands gained popularity after the Duchess of Cambridge wore one during the ...

A proud younger brother has broken a world record dreamt up by his cancer-suffering sibling by creating a loom band that can reach the moon. Three-year-old Jesse Hall, from Oxford, was awarded the ...

NOT many people have managed to build something that can reach the moon. But one family's campaign to build the world's longest Loom Band in memory of their five-year-old son has broken the world ...

The end of a kids’ craze for bracelets made from plastic Loom Bands is blamed for slowing sales at Poundland. Now retailers are on the lookout for the next lucrative fad to cash in on. For a while ...

Health experts have warned of the dangers of loom bands, which are popular amongst children. AFP / Getty Images The dangers of loom bands have been highlighted after several children were treated in ...

Loom bands are on many children’s Christmas present list this year, but doctors have warned parents that they are more dangerous they think. According to an article in the Journal of Laryngology & ...

It's likely that lots of children will be opening loom bands this Christmas morning - but academics are warning of the risk of them getting stuck up kids' noses. Four children were treated at the same ...

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1. Wind a white band around two pencils in a figure of eight, keeping the pencils close together. 2. Now push two more bands (we used a yellow one followed by an orange one) over the pencils without ...

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.

FAMILY-owned toy store The Entertainer has enjoyed record revenues driven by this summer’s craze for loom bands, writes Emma Vickers. Share Article Total sales for the first nine months of its current ...

But unlike most of her peers, this six-year-old is incredibly worried about the effects her hobby of looping hundreds of tiny synthetic rubber bands together to make jewellery could have on the ...