Easy Rubber Band Racers

How to make a rubber band and propeller.

Easy rubber band racers.

From this activity students will learn about the concepts of force speed and acceleration. There s nothing like seeing the smiles on your kid s faces as they make homemade toys. Even if the wheels do spin there might not be enough friction with the ground causing them to spin in. Once you know the basics of building a rubber band car you can experiment with you own design and construction.

This diy rubber band racer is one of our favorite kid friendly activities to do as a family. A lovely and simple rubber band powered toy car made of simple materials to improve kids creativity while having fun. Place a second rubber band labeled with tab b here on the floor of the car. They are also fun to play with and race.

Our kids really like to make diy toys and the best part you can make it with items found around the home. They will also explore the engineering design p. Move the second rubber band so that it is under the first rubber band then pull the tab b end through the first rubber band. The rubber band can slip relative to the wooden axle preventing the wheels from spinning.

The rubber band with tab a is lying at the back of the car. Using simple household materials and tools it was super easy to create a rubber band powered racer. Firstly by pulling back the rubber band racer you stretch the rubber band thereby storing energy also known as potential energy. When you let the rubber band racer go the stored energy in the tension of the rubber band is released and is transferred to the rear axle an application of the first law of thermodynamics.

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.