Easy Rubber Band Lego Car

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Easy rubber band lego car.

This rubber band powered car is an awesome engineering activity for your next stem project time. This is an easy to make rubberband car using a paper towel tube for the body. It will rub and the car won t roll. Kids will have fun designing and building it and then winding it up and letting it go.

How to make a simple pull back car rubber band powered. This rubber band powered lego car will zoom across the floor for 20 feet or more. This month we were invited to participate in a storybook stem challenge series. What to do 1 cut out four cardboard.

I ve made these cars with groups of kids at library programs several times and it s always lots of fun. Build batman s vehicle with this cool lego rubber band car for a book inspired stem project. Build a rubber band powered lego car learn about potential and kinetic energy with this zippy little car that zooms across the floor under the power of a rubber band. This is a simple instructable that tells you how to make a rubber band powered pull back car.

I had hot glue guns on hand and all manner of fancy stuff for decorating the cars. Add some learning by measuring how far it shoots. You ll need a paper towel tube two old cds a couple of pencils o. Although i had initially thought that i needed to choose a book specifically about stem i realized any book provides the same kind of opportunity for learning including our beginner batman book collection.

Hook the rubber band straight to the front edge of the tube without going over the front axle. Kids love building things that move. Construct a lego catapult this is so much fun to build. Wrap one rubber band around the finger and thumb of your non dominant hand.

It would be fun to build these with a lego club or stem class and see whose car travels the farthest. Slip the other band through the center of band 1 and pull about halfway through. Things you need rubber band kebab skewer straw cardboard 2 old cd s a toy car glue scissors compass tape pen. This is an easy knot you can tie with two closed loops like rubber bands are.

I made a start and finish line with masking tape to facilitate racing. Building this car is a great engineering project that demonstrates the power of potential and kinetic energy.