Cardboard Rubber Band Car Designs

Instead of cardboard the cars can use a variety of lightweight materials for the chassis such as lego balsa wood light plastic container cereal box or foam board.

Cardboard rubber band car designs.

Plastic bottle caps toy wheels like those of k nex film canister caps can also serve as the wheels. Pbs kids design squad build rubber band car. Design and build the body. Tape the rubber band to the skewer to prevent it from slipping when the skewer rotates the rubber band should rotate with it.

Other designs of rubber band cars. The basic setup is a lightweight body for the car wheels axles and a rubber band to provide energy for motion. Cut a small slot in the middle of the piece of cardboard. Combine them and you get something even better in this instructable i will show how to make a simple rubberband powered car using cardboard.

These rubber band car designs encourage children to ask questions about transfer of energy observe analyze and share their findings. Attach the rubber band. Cut a notch in the center of one end of the body. Decide how big the body of your car will be.

Cut it to that size. Turn the axle several times. Be sure the corrugations the groves in the cardboard run from the right to the left not back and forth. You ve given the rubber band potential stored energy.

Rubberband is a versatile material as well. Some designs use cardboard for wheels some use cds.