Cardboard Rubber Band Race Car

If you want to do something with those pesky cardboard shipping boxes try making a toy car.

Cardboard rubber band race car.

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. Wrap the unattached end of the rubber band over the catch. Then get 4 cds and glue a wooden spool to one side of each cd and a button to the other side. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania.

You need rubber bands cardboard tape glue scissors and two pencils. 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. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better. Attach the rubber band.

You can modify this car to increase its performance. Here are the items needed for your diy race car and the step by step directions for making a diy rubber band racer. To increase power use stronger rubberband or use more than one rubberbands. This is probably one of our favorite rubber band toys we have made.

So make some cars race them and have fun. Turn the axle several times. Tape one end of a rubber band to the cardboard at the end opposite the axle. To increase distance use a longer rubberband and also make the car longer to fit the rubberband properly.

You ve given the rubber band potential stored energy.