Make Your Own Solar Oven Pizza Box

Have you ever wanted to make sure you got an a on that assignment on heat energy.

Make your own solar oven pizza box.

Making a lightweight solar oven 1 place a cardboard box inside a larger cardboard box. 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. Materials needed for this step. The plastic wrap covers an opening in the box and works like a greenhouse allowing sunlight to pass into the box while also keeping the heat in.

You can experiment with solar power just by using an ordinary pizza box or any normal box with a flap. Remove the tops of both boxes and place the small one inside the larger one. The aluminum foil is used to reflect sunlight into the box. The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot.

Take the 2 sides and do the same thing. Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside. Take the front of your pizza box and your ruler with your dark or black sharpie. Box cutter or scissors.

You will cut a flap out of the pizza box s. Our diy solar oven below is made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Build and use a simple solar 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.

Clear type of tape. 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. Measure out 1 inch from the front where you open the box and put down a small dot. This step is to just make the top of the solar oven.

Dish or pie plate. How to make a pizza box solar oven. 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.