Cardboard Rubber Band Race Car

To make a rubber band car start by inserting 2 dowels through a cardboard tube 1 at each end for the axles on your car.

Cardboard rubber band race car.

You can modify this car to increase its performance. You need rubber bands cardboard tape glue scissors and two pencils. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania. To increase power use stronger rubberband or use more than one rubberbands.

Attach the rubber band. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better. So make some cars race them and have fun. Also make the body stronger by attaching another layer or cardboard.

Tape one end of a rubber band to the cardboard at the end opposite the axle. Rubber band powered cardboard car. Wrap the unattached end of the rubber band over the catch. You ve given the rubber band potential stored energy.

Here are the items needed for your diy race car and the step by step directions for making a diy rubber band racer. Then get 4 cds and glue a wooden spool to one side of each cd and a button to the other side. This is probably one of our favorite rubber band toys we have made. Turn the axle several times.

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.