Pizza Box Solar Oven Project

Take it outside to a sunny spot and adjust the flap until the most sunlight possible is reflecting off the aluminum foil and onto the plastic covered window.

Pizza box solar oven project.

The best hours to set up your solar oven are when the sun is high overhead from 11 am to 3 pm. 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. 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. The aluminum foil is used to reflect sunlight into the box.

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. A solar oven can be used for all different types of things such as cooking baking heating something up boiling frying and even more. Our diy solar oven below is made out of a pizza box aluminum foil plastic wrap and a sheet of black paper. Use a ruler to prop the flap at the right angle.

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. In case you were wondering a solar oven is a devise that uses the suns energy to heat up cook or bake all different types of unique foods and all sorts of fun stuff.