Make Your Own Solar Oven Pizza Box

You covered the flap with foil so that the foil would reflect sunlight into the oven.

Make your own solar oven pizza box.

You will notice that food takes longer to cook in a solar oven than a regular one. To easily make a lightweight solar oven set a cardboard box inside a larger cardboard box and fill the gap between the boxes with shredded newspaper. From shoe boxes to pizza boxes the choice of materials is up to you. Summer stem isn t complete until you have made your own sun oven or solar cooker for melting s mores.

You will cut a flap out of the pizza box. Line the inside of the cardboard box with black construction paper and cut out four flared squares from a piece of cardboard. Design and build a solar oven with a whole group or as a backyard boredom buster. A pizza box aluminum foil box cutter or knife permanent marker ruler elmer s glue plastic cling wrap black construction paper and tape.

Here s what you ll need. Build and use a simple solar oven. Take the 2 sides and do the same thing. Materials needed for this step.

No campfire needed with this engineering classic. The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot. The solar oven you build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Measure out 1 inch from the front where you open the box and put down a small dot.

To take food out of the oven open up the lid of the pizza box and using oven mitts or potholders lift the glass dish out of the oven. On a sunny warm day your oven could reach about 200 degrees f. The black paper. Take the front of your pizza box and your ruler with your dark or black sharpie.

The solar oven you will build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Take this fun stem project outdoors the next hot day you have this summer. This last experiment will be lots of fun to try this summer make your own s mores or even melt cheese on top of individual sized pizzas.