Elastic Band Car Instructions

We used a craft stick for this.

Elastic band car instructions. Hence the more the winds of the rubber band the faster and longer your drive. Rubber bands are a convenient and effective way to teach energy transformation and this rubber band car makes that lesson a blast. 4 toothpicks or wooden skewers. I ll include affiliate links to find what you need on amazon as well.

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. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better. Here are the items needed for your diy race car and the step by step directions for making a diy rubber band racer. Finally run a chain of rubber bands from one end of the cardboard tube to the other and secure it with a paper clip.

When released that energy is converted to kinetic motion energy. 2 straws this will be the frame of the car. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania. I cut a slit in the top of the.

The energy generated from the rubber band snapping back into shape is enough to power this small car. We needed two attach the rubber band to a fixed position at the front of the car. These are recycled paper staws. Wrap the rubber band around the rear axle.

A stretched rubber band is a great source of elastic potential energy. The rubber band unwinds to regain its former configuration spinning the axle and propelling the car forward in the process. 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. Aiden has broken the wheels off of the car several times and i ve had to reglue them.

A quick google search for rubber band car project yields tens of thousands of results so why reinvent the rubber band powered wheel the top results show cars with small wheels without traction or cd wheels which are difficult to attach to an axel both of. Adult supervision is recommended for children under 10. I have also used a paper clip.