Easy Rubber Band Car Instructions

It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better.

Easy rubber band car instructions.

This is an easy to make rubberband car using a paper towel tube for the body. I have also used a paper clip. How to make a simple car with rubber band. You ll need a paper towel tube two old cds a couple of pencils o.

2 straws this will be the frame of the car. Hence the more the winds of the rubber band the faster and longer your drive. I ll include affiliate links to find what you need on amazon as well. Here are the items needed for your diy race car and the step by step directions for making a diy rubber band racer.

This rubber band powered lego car will zoom across the floor for 20 feet or more. Building this car is a great engineering project that demonstrates the power of potential and kinetic energy. 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. These are recycled paper staws.

4 toothpicks or wooden skewers. Finally run a chain of rubber bands from one end of the cardboard tube to the other and secure it with a paper clip. It would be fun to build these with a lego club or stem class and see whose car travels the farthest. 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.

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.