The car engine shop
Fact-checked printables for the kitchen table and the classroom, plus a short list of books and model engines. Every purchase helps keep this site free.
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Car engine printables
Fact-checked PDFs in A4 and US Letter, sold as instant downloads from the ReallyByte store.
Colour the Engine: Car Engine Colouring Pack
Colour-in drawings of a cylinder, the four strokes, gears, a spark plug, a Wankel rotor and the first engines, each with a fact-checked caption, plus label-the-part pages.
Car Engine Puzzle Pack: Crosswords, Codes & Stroke Logic
A crossword, a word search, a code-cracker, a stroke-order puzzle, a petrol-or-diesel sort and a timeline sort, with answer keys.
Car Engine Fact Cards: Parts, Pioneers & Power
Twenty-four fact-checked cards on engine parts, the four strokes, petrol and diesel, gears and the inventors, ready to cut out.
How an Engine Works: A Car Engine Workbook
Follow the four strokes, compare petrol and diesel, work out gear ratios and horsepower, and build an engine timeline from 1807 to 1971.
Pistons & Sparks: Kids’ Car Engine Worksheets
For ages 7 to 11: name the parts, order the strokes, true or false, spark or squeeze, gear maths and a crankshaft maze.
Car Engine Poster Set
Six fact-checked posters: the four strokes, petrol vs diesel, engine parts, gears, where the energy goes and the engine pioneers.
Best valueThe Complete Car Engine Printables Bundle
All six packs plus a guide, A4 and US Letter, in one download.
Free sample
Try before you buy: a free 7-page car engine sample, with pages from the packs. A4 PDF (780 KB) or US Letter PDF (770 KB).
Books & kit
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Books
- Books on how car engines work (affiliate link)The four strokes, the parts and the physics, for grown-up readers.
- Engine books for children (affiliate link)Pistons, sparks and gears explained with pictures.
- Books on the history of engines (affiliate link)From Lenoir and Otto to Diesel and Wankel.
- Car maintenance books (affiliate link)How the parts of a real car fit together.
Models to build
- Working model engine kits (affiliate link)Build a see-through engine and watch the pistons move.
- See-through V8 engine model kits (affiliate link)A plastic model engine with moving parts.
- Gear sets for young engineers (affiliate link)Mesh gears and see how speed and turning force swap over.
At the table
- Colouring pencils (affiliate link)For the colour-in engine drawings.