How To Make A Solar Panel Oven Pizza Box

On the top of the pizza box s lid draw a square that measures one inch inward from each edge.

How to make a solar panel oven pizza box.

Then fold the flap back slightly along the attached side. 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. The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot. Carefully cut along each side of the square you just drew except for the side that runs along the hinge of the box.

All you need is a pizza box a few basic supplies and the sun and your cub scout can make some cool solar recipes including english muffin pizzas and s mores. 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. Put the food on a preferably dark colored plate. Take the top flap of your solar oven that you had just cut out and take some of the shiny material that you are using for the oven to reflect.

Because the only heat source is the sun this is a great cooking activity for younger kids. You cut a flap out of the pizza box s lid and line this flap with aluminum foil so that sunlight can be reflected off of the foil and into the box. Wait an hour or so. Put it in the bottom of the pizza box.

When we think about outdoor cooking most of us think about a grill or a campfire but did you know that you can cook in a pizza box oven. 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. Wrap plastic wrap on top of the bottom and secure with tape. Cut all the way through the cardboard on those three sides.

You will cut a flap out of the pizza box s. Go outside and using string fix the top side of the pizza box to reflect the most sunlight on the food.