Wooden Rubber Band Car Instructions

Choose a large rubber band to power the car.

Wooden rubber band car instructions.

If you don t have any styrofoam try out different materials in place of the styrofoam. 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. 1 wooden skewer the thinner the better 1 rubber band. Attach a large paper clip to the end of the rubber band chain and drop it down into the tube.

Turn the rear axle several times to wind the rubber band around it set the car on a smooth hard surface and let go. Wrap the rubber band around the rear axle. Get creative and use other things around the house to hold the wheels in. Your car is ready to roll.

You can t really tell until it s installed in the car and you try it out. Cut a notch 2 x 1 at the middle of an end. Depending on the length of your car you may need two rubber bands. Rubber band car picture 1.

Loop one end on the hook at the front of the car and loop the other end over the catch on the rear axle. Finally run a chain of rubber bands from one end of the cardboard tube to the other and secure it with a paper clip. Reach into the back end of the cardboard tube to retrieve the paper clip. Attach the jumbo paper clip to one end of the rubber band chain.

Insert the skewer into a groove near the outer edge of the cardboard passing it through the notch and coming out through the other side forming the axle. Wrap rubber bands or loops cut from a small balloon around the rear wheels to add traction. 2 pieces of styrofoam about 2 inches long and thick enough to fit tightly in the hole of a cd. Rubber band car picture 2.

If your wheels are smooth you might need more traction for the car to operate properly. Usually 5 14 rubber bands is long enough but it varies they might need to take one away or add one. Next wrap 2 rubber bands around each cd to make an x shape and attach the cds to the car by sliding the wooden spools onto the dowels.