Cardboard Rubber Band Race Car

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

Cardboard rubber band race car.

If you want to do something with those pesky cardboard shipping boxes try making a toy car. You can modify this car to increase its performance. This is probably one of our favorite rubber band toys we have made. 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 might be our favorite diy kid s toy we have made we ve made plenty of diy wooden cars too. It s a thicker cardboard and will definitely hold up better. You ve given the rubber band potential stored energy. To increase distance use a longer rubberband and also make the car longer to fit the rubberband properly.

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. Here are the items needed for your diy race car and the step by step directions for making a diy rubber band racer. Rubber band powered cardboard car. So make some cars race them and have fun.

Wrap the unattached end of the rubber band over the catch. This rubber band car tutorial comes right out of the pages of one of my new books rubber band mania. Tape one end of a rubber band to the cardboard at the end opposite the axle. Also make the body stronger by attaching another layer or cardboard.

Attach the rubber band.