Pizza Box Solar Oven

This afternoon we made a Pizza Box Solar Oven.  The kid's had seen a segment yesterday about these solar ovens at the end of a Curious George episode and wanted to make one.  We found the instructions here.  This oven can reach 275F and can cook things like mini pizzas, hot dogs, cookies or s'mores.

Here Baxter poses with the materials we needed to make our pizza oven; pizza box, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, glue, tape and box cutter.  The packing tape I used to attach the plastic wrap is missing from this shot.

First I cut a flap in the lid one inch from the sides.  Then we covered the flap with aluminum foil.  The inside of the box also got lined with foil.

Here Baxter demonstrates how I covered the hole with plastic wrap from the inside.  The oven is now done.  Unfortunately, it was too chilly and overcast for us to try it out this afternoon.  Hopefully tomorrow will be warmer.

After dinner McKayla wanted to play Memory.  Baxter thought that sounded like a great idea until he found out it was a princess version!  So girly!  But, in the end he played too.

Baxter and McKayla working together to play.  They ended up winning this round.