Eco-friendly weblog The Daily Green details how to turn a cardboard box into a DIY solar oven for a little weekend fun in the sun. All you'll need i ...

Let’s say an important cardboard shipping box got left in the rain, and you are desperate to dry it out. Or, you have a DIY project that involves heating materials.

The sun's rays don't just warm your skin. You can collect solar energy in an insulated cardboard "oven" that can get hotter than 200°F. At that temperature, food will take a while to cook, but ...

How to Use Your Solar Oven . Solar ovens typically work best between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., when solar radiation is at its peak. Place the solar oven in the sun and adjust the flap so that it ...

DIY expert Erica Domesek shows us a cute + fun DIY project —a cardboard brick pizza oven—that will teach your kids about cooking and sustainability.

How to Make a DIY Solar Oven Cut the four 2 × 12 base pieces to length according to the cutting list. Arrange the base parts on a flat work surface and clamp them together in the correct orientation.

But with a cardboard box, a piece of glass or plastic and some tinfoil, you can make a reasonably functioning solar oven on your own. Bonus: You get to feel like MacGyver doing it.

This oven, which has served us well for more than twenty-five years, is a fiberglass-insulated box with a sloped pane of glass on top, set at a 45-degree angle.

We all know how expensive childrens toys can be - and how quickly a child gets bored. So cut your costs and make your little one a whole range of fun play ideas with a cardboard box (or two). You ...

"You cannot put cardboard in an oven," cautions fire safety expert Steve Lockwood. "Cardboard may catch fire at temperatures above 400 degrees," but even when the oven is set at a lower ...

Even if you have a dishware collection that could rival Martha's, you might have once been tempted: You open the oven, take a glance at last night’s leftovers still sitting in their cardboard ...