I need to make a homemade animal for Art, preferably using rubber bands (3max.).

Question:I need to make a homemade animal for Art, preferably using rubber bands (3max.) which can move. Any ideas?

- Please submit ideas by 27/3 (Art is on 27/3).
- I'm not supposed to use motors and batteries.
- There must be no left over parts (e.g. in a catapult bird, i cant leave the rubber band behind; the rubber band must go with the bird).
- The further the animal thing goes, the more marks i get!
- No animals in water, please.

Please help!

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- Please submit ideas by 27/3 (Art is on 27/3).
- I'm not supposed to use motors and batteries.
- There must be no left over parts (e.g. in a catapult bird, i cant leave the rubber band behind; the rubber band must go with the bird).
- The further the animal thing goes, the more marks i get!
- No animals in water, please.

Please help!

A twisted rubber band will store energy and try to unwind, like the chains of a swing on the playground.
If you use, big buttons as wheels, with the rubber band twisted between them ( use a match stick in the middle) you can make a rolling animal. If you use a kind of plane shape, painted as a bird and hook the rubber band to a propeller at the rear, like a rotating bird's tail, you can twist the rubber band by twirling the propeller then let go, it will fly.
You can also rig up a little tripod of sticks or short pieces of coat hanger with one "leg" longer than the others. Twisting the bands will make the "grasshopper" jump.
Think twisting the band, not stretching it and letting the object go. The twisted band always travels with the object which is part of the assignment, right? Experiment with pieces of stuff in the band at the ends of the band. Think about whether land travel, air travel or water travel would be best to get the maximum distance...and have FUN!