Over the summer, Sam Hira’s Silly Bandz collection stretched from his wrist to his elbow. Last spring, the 10-year-old was one of the first kids at his River Falls, Wis., elementary school to wear the ...

Have your kids gotten in on the Silly Bandz craze? The $5 packs of rubber bands in the shapes of animals, letters and other fun items are worn on wrists like bracelets — but educators say this fad has ...

They stack them from wrist to elbow, tiny pink and yellow and blue plastic bands shaped like zebras and pumpkins and spiders. They wrap them around their ankles and shoot them over one another’s heads ...

They are the latest craze for kids, and they are making people everywhere shake their heads and ask, “Why didn’t I think of that?” They are Silly Bandz — silicone, die-molded rubber bands intended to ...

The UPS truck rumbles down Main Street in Toledo most mornings, past the boarded-up Cloud 9 bar, the abandoned Masonic Temple, the car wash, the tattoo parlor, and the payday loan shop. It stops at ...

I have heard from more than one mom in the last few days about Silly Bandz, the rubber bands that apparently all kids must have right this very minute. For the uninitiated, Silly Bandz are basically ...

When does a fad become a meme? When people begin describing the world in terms of it. And so it is with Silly Bandz, which, for the uninitiated, are rubber bands made into shapes. They come in themed ...

Each morning as Meadows senior Jesslyn Mitchell-Laguna gets ready for school, she remembers to bring along her glow-in-the-dark turtle, lightning bolt and Mickey Mouse. This assortment of objects is ...

Silly Bandz, brightly colored, polymorphous rubber bands, will soon be the subject of a new “addictive physics-based catapult gameplay.” In other words: Silly Bandz iPhone app! There has never been a ...

Cincinnati, OH - Video game publisher Zoo Entertainment, Inc (NASDAQ CM: ZOOG) today announced that the wildly popular Silly Bandz will be making their debut as a video game for the Nintendo DS just ...

Cincinnati, OH - Bringing holiday joy to boys and girls of all ages, video game publisher Zoo Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ CM: ZOOG) today announced that Silly Bandz: The Game is coming to iOS devices ...

In December I got a notice that the ubiquitous Silly Bandz were coming to video game format. Full disclosure: I was skeptical that it could work as a video game; however, with a child spending ...