Powered Balloon Car

A powered balloon car is a fun craft project and an educational science activity that can be done at home using recycled materials. This activity is not only fun, but it could also boost our creativity and save the earth by reducing the waste and pollution around us. In this project, we decided to create 3 powered balloon cars with different features with materials that are easily found around our houses, such as cardboards, bamboo skewers, straws, bottle caps and balloons. We performed 2 trials with 3 parameters on each car in order to compare and to find out which powered balloon car could travel the farthest and the fastest. In these trials and experiments, we discovered that the distance and the speed of the powered balloon car could travel depending on the size of the wheels, the number of the wheels, the air pressure that came from our straw and the size of the balloon.