I thought 600 rubber bands would be more than enough to keep my eight-year-old busy this summer making the modern-day version of friendship bracelets with her new Rainbow Loom. If you don't know what ...

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 ...

The loom is intended for “6 and up,” but Brycen, the aforementioned nephew, is persuasive, and in my family, there is always a fallback position: Joan will figure it out. Sure enough, I stopped in for ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. The other day, my seven-year-old son asked me for a Rainbow Loom. If you don’t know what that is, you don’t ...

In September, when Greta Arcudi bought her daughter a bracelet-making kit called the Rainbow Loom, her son, Jake, was a little miffed because he wanted one, too. So she bought him one. "He's way into ...