Cardboard Rubber Band Race Car

You need rubber bands cardboard tape glue scissors and two pencils.

Cardboard rubber band race car. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania. Here are the items needed for your diy race car and the step by step directions for making a diy rubber band racer. Wrap the unattached end of the rubber band over the catch. Attach the rubber band.

Also make the body stronger by attaching another layer or cardboard. 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. If you want to do something with those pesky cardboard shipping boxes try making a toy car. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better.

Rubber band powered cardboard car. So make some cars race them and have fun. It might be our favorite diy kid s toy we have made we ve made plenty of diy wooden cars too. Turn the axle several times.

This is probably one of our favorite rubber band toys we have made. Then get 4 cds and glue a wooden spool to one side of each cd and a button to the other side. 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.

Tape one end of a rubber band to the cardboard at the end opposite the axle.