A Rubber Band Powered Car

There are lots of creative rubber band car ideas but you definitely need a rubber band and a way to wind it up.

A rubber band powered car.

Wrap the rubber band around the rear axle. This video will show you how to make a very simple rubber band powered car using plastic bottles. Cheap and remote control car. Plus it s even more fun if you can make a car go without just pushing it or by adding an expensive motor.

How to make a rubber band powered car if you like this video please subscribe to our channel. Kids love building things that move. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better. 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.

Rubber bands are a convenient and effective way to teach energy transformation and this rubber band car makes that lesson a blast. Gasoline powered cars calculate their fuel economy in miles per gallon or how many miles the car can travel on one. 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. This rubber band powered car is an awesome engineering activity for your next stem project time.

We used a craft stick for this. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania. Elektronomia the other side ncs release https yout. I cut a slit in the top of the.

Think of the fuel economy for your rubber band powered car. We needed two attach the rubber band to a fixed position at the front of the car. Depending on the length of your car you may need two rubber bands. Hope you like it.