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Monday, January 14, 2013

[Crafts for Kids] - Balloon Powered Car


Sudeepti demonstrating how to build a car that uses the power of air pressure to roll across a room.


Materials Required:
  1. Cardboard 
  2. Three Straws 
  3. Two Sticks 
  4. Four bottle caps 
  5. Balloon 
  6. Tape 
  7. Scissors 
  8. Hammer 
  9. Nail
How to Build:
  1. First take a straw and cut it to the width of the cardboard.
  2. Take another straw and cut it to the same size.
  3. Attach the two cut straws to one side of the cardboard with the help of tape.
  4. Now take the third straw and cut it to the length of the card board
  5. Put one end of the the third straw in to the balloon and wrap the tap around it. So that the straw is fixed to it.
  6. Attach the balloon to the other side of the cardboard. make sure some part of the straw is outside the cardboard.
  7. Take the four bottle caps and make small holes at the center using a nail and hammer.
  8. Take one stick and poke it in to one cap. Then let the stick go through one straw and then poke the stick in to another cap.
  9. Similarly do with the other stick.

Your balloon powered car is ready. When you blow air into the balloon and leave the car then the car moves.