Description
Part mousetrap, part car, the Mousetrap Racer is a fun way to learn how stored energy becomes movement. The little car is powered by a repurposed mousetrap spring that sends it racing across the floor.
Children build the racer and see potential energy turn into kinetic energy, then experiment to see how far it will go.
- Build: a mousetrap-spring powered racer
- Learning areas: physics, energy, engineering








