Easy Rubber Band Car Instructions

4 toothpicks or wooden skewers.

Easy rubber band car instructions. Here are the items needed for your diy race car and the step by step directions for making a diy rubber band racer. I ve made these cars with groups of kids at library programs several times and it s always lots of fun. It would be fun to build these with a lego club or stem class and see whose car travels the farthest. Finally run a chain of rubber bands from one end of the cardboard tube to the other and secure it with a paper clip.

Next wrap 2 rubber bands around each cd to make an x shape and attach the cds to the car by sliding the wooden spools onto the dowels. These are recycled paper staws. You ll need a paper towel tube two old cds a couple of pencils o. This is an easy to make rubberband car using a paper towel tube for the body.

2 straws this will be the frame of the car. I ll include affiliate links to find what you need on amazon as well. Building this car is a great engineering project that demonstrates the power of potential and kinetic energy. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania.

I have also used a paper clip. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better. While you can certainly use a paper towel tube for your car i chose a sturdier tube that came from a box of aluminum foil. This rubber band powered lego car will zoom across the floor for 20 feet or more.

On twisting the rubber band around the axle you are storing potential energy in it that gets transformed into kinetic energy when you let it go.