How Do You Make A Mousetrap Racecar Move?
A mousetrap car is a miniature vehicle made mostly of objects found around your house, and whose only source of power is a mousetrap. Mousetrap cars are a fun and creative way to help children learn about the principles of physics and develop their problem-solving skills. Getting the mousetrap racer to move is the procedure we’ll explain here. Step 1 Build your mousetrap racecar according to the instructions laid out in the article in Resources. Step 2 As you are building your mousetrap racecar, make sure to push your string through the hole you’ve poked or drilled through your pen axle, and pull it through until the small piece of toothpick you tied to the other end stops the string from being pulled through any further. You should end up with a piece of string that is held in place at one of the open ends of the emptied pen by a small piece of toothpick; the other end of the string comes out through a hole you have made halfway down the pen barrel. Step 3 Also make sure when you are