Rubber Band Racing Cars

When you wind up the rubber bands to power the car you re forcing the polymer chains to straighten out which creates elastic potential energy.

Rubber band racing cars.

We made the rubber band race car tinker crate from kiwi co. Build and race your ow. Rubber band cars are a fun way to learn about motion propulsion and energy. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better.

I m a huge race car fan so when we started experimenting with wheeled vehicles in our kid testing lab i knew just what i wanted to create. Winding the rubber bands requires energy which is supplied by you. It might be our favorite diy kid s toy we have made we ve made plenty of diy wooden cars too. They are also fun to play with and race.

Find this and all sorts of easy crafts for kids on this blog and pin or bookmark them for hours of fun. 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. Watch the video and decide for yourself. After you make this clothespin car you might want to add this clothespin airplane and this rubber band car to.

A clothespin car would make a great camp craft too. Speaking of camp everyone remembers making a god s eye craft right. Project kit by kiwico. Rubber bands are a convenient and effective way to teach energy transformation and this rubber band car makes that lesson a blast.

This is probably one of our favorite rubber band toys we have made. 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. Once you know the basics of building a rubber band car you can experiment with you own design and construction. Using simple household materials and tools it was super easy to create a rubber band powered racer.

The steps below require some adult assistance as we used an electric drill and a hot glue gun but our kid testers were happy to help with the other. Here are the items needed for your diy race car and the step by step directions for making a diy rubber band racer. Firstly by pulling back the rubber band racer you stretch the rubber band thereby storing energy also known as potential energy. It ended up being a really cool car.

The kids can have races with their newly created toys.