Girls Weaving Rubber Band Bracelets

A long wooden table fills with girls looping colorful rubber bands onto small plastic looms, building striped bracelets bead by bead. Bowls heaped with bands in pink, teal, purple, and yellow crowd the table between hook tools and finished bracelets stacked in loose piles. Woven tapestries and patterned banners in red, orange, and turquoise cover every wall of the timber room, matching the bright colors of the craft below. Sunlight comes through two tall windows on the left, lighting rows of smiling faces bent over their work. Chairs of every size ring the table, packed close enough that elbows nearly touch as more bands click into place. Braided hair, headbands, and patterned shirts add their own color to the mix of finished and half-made bracelets. Each loom at the table holds its own pattern, ready to be picked out one at a time.