Solar Oven Shoe Box Smores

No campfire needed with this engineering classic.

Solar oven shoe box smores. All you need to do is create an enclosed windowed space that will retain heat. Design and build a solar oven with a whole group or as a backyard boredom buster. Once it has gone through the plastic wrap it heats up the air that is trapped inside. 1 cut the oven door flap on the box.

Depending on how hot the day is and how directly the sunlight shines on the oven the marshmallows will take 30 to 60 minutes to get squishy when you poke them. Really any box will do. Rays of sunlight come to the earth at an angle. With scissors or xacto knife with adult help cut a three sided flap out of the top side of the box leaving at least a 1 inch border around the three sides.

Solar ovens use solar energy light and heat from the sun to cook food. The foil reflects the ray and bounces it into the opening of the box. Think of getting into your vehicle on a hot sunny day. Close the oven lid the part with the plastic wrap on it tightly and prop up the flap to reflect the sunlight into the box.

My name is noah and i am a sixth grade student in massachusetts. From shoe boxes to pizza boxes the choice of materials is up to you. This is a fun optional step. The oven is designed to absorb more heat than it releases.

The size depends on what you are cooking and how much access you need. How to make pizza box solar oven smores 1. So many great things are synonymous with summertime yummies we can t think of a summer treat we enjoy quite as much as a s more. You could probably just make the s mores on your car dash if you wanted but that s less fun and way more messy.

Just have an adult use a craft knife or scissors to cut the solar oven door. Summer stem isn t complete until you have made your own sun oven or solar cooker for melting s mores. A solar oven can be made of household materials and uses the power of the sun. Solar oven s mores use solar energy to make a tasty sweet treat in a pizza box.

A shoe box or pizza box works well because the lid stays attached. How to make a diy solar oven line the inside of the cardboard box with black paper. Warm drippy chocolate oozing around a melted marshmallow and sandwiched in a graham cracker. Place the pan in the preheated solar oven.

2 decorate your solar oven with sharpies.