How To Make A Solar Panel Oven Pizza Box

You will cut a flap out of the pizza box s.

How to make a solar panel oven pizza box. 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. Then fold the flap back slightly along the attached side. Put it in the bottom of the pizza 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. Cut all the way through the cardboard on those three sides. On the top of the pizza box s lid draw a square that measures one inch inward from each edge. 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.

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. 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. Wrap plastic wrap on top of the bottom and secure with tape. Put the food on a preferably dark colored plate.

Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside. Carefully cut along each side of the square you just drew except for the side that runs along the hinge of the box. Wait an hour or so. Go outside and using string fix the top side of the pizza box to reflect the most sunlight on the food.

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. After cut out the right size of the material that matches the flap and glue it on there.