How To Make A Solar Panel Oven Pizza Box

Put it in the bottom of the pizza box.

How to make a solar panel oven pizza box.

Wrap plastic wrap on top of the bottom and secure with tape. 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. Carefully cut along each side of the square you just drew except for the side that runs along the hinge of the box. You will cut a flap out of the pizza box s.

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. The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot. Because the only heat source is the sun this is a great cooking activity for younger kids. After cut out the right size of the material that matches the flap and glue it on there.

Then fold the flap back slightly along the attached side. On the top of the pizza box s lid draw a square that measures one inch inward from each edge. 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. 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.

Go outside and using string fix the top side of the pizza box to reflect the most sunlight on the food. Put the food on a preferably dark colored plate. 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. Cut all the way through the cardboard on those three sides.

This makes it so no bugs land on your food. 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.