This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania.
Easy rubber band car instructions.
2 straws this will be the frame of the car.
This is an easy to make rubberband car using a paper towel tube for the body.
These are recycled paper staws.
I have also used a paper clip.
I ve made these cars with groups of kids at library programs several times and it s always lots of fun.
You ll need a paper towel tube two old cds a couple of pencils o.
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.
4 toothpicks or wooden skewers.
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How to make a simple car with rubber band.
It would be fun to build these with a lego club or stem class and see whose car travels the farthest.
Hence the more the winds of the rubber band the faster and longer your drive.
This rubber band powered lego car will zoom across the floor for 20 feet or more.
Finally run a chain of rubber bands from one end of the cardboard tube to the other and secure it with a paper clip.
The rubber band unwinds to regain its former configuration spinning the axle and propelling the car forward in the process.
It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better.
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.