Balloon Car Racing

As an end of term treat Room 8 undertook a balloon car building challenge. Each team was given one balloon to power their car and had to include half a one litre milk bottle in their design. We got an hour and a half to build our cars with each team having two or three members.

(John, Steven and Marc construct their long distance racer)

There was lots of variation in the designs for each team with cars that looked like a dragster through to three wheeled racers. The classroom buzzed with activity and excitement as the cars took shape and there were squeals of delight and despair as test runs proved designs successful or still works in progress.

(Zachary, Bhavit and Marcus admire their first effort)

(Cherie checks out the construction of her teams racer)

At the end of the hour and a half the teams gave themselves a name and then we headed to the hall for the final race off.


There were three awards up for grabs, longest distance, fastest racer and most interesting design. John, Steven and Marc took the prize for the longest distance; Amy, Anna and Gabi built the fastest car and Cheri, Amy and Maega claimed the most interesting design award.

(Haydon gives his teams racer a test run)

We took some video of our cars in action and we will try and post a little movie of our efforts at a later date.