Rubber Band Car Instructions

Adult supervision is recommended for children under 10.

Rubber band car instructions.

Build a rubber band car what you need. 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. Chose the rubber band you want to power your car. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better.

Our rubber band racecar kit comes with everything you need to build a rubber band car. I ve made these cars with groups of kids at library programs several times and it s always lots of fun. The rubber band unwinds to regain its former configuration spinning the axle and propelling the car forward in the process. This is an easy to make rubberband car using a paper towel tube for the body.

Attach it to the car opposite the notch. Decide how you will attach the rubber band. Finally run a chain of rubber bands from one end of the cardboard tube to the other and secure it with a paper clip. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania.

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. You ll need a paper towel tube two old cds a couple of pencils o. Different lengths and widths of rubber bands will wind around the axle differently store different amounts of energy and release their energy differently. Hence the more the winds of the rubber band the faster and longer your drive.