Make a Solar Oven to Cook Smores

Making a solar oven is a fun STEM activity that’s environmentally friendly, and when you cook smores inside you get a snack, too.

Nourishing My Scholar has the DIY for making your own solar oven out of a pizza box (please get a clean one!) and talks about what is happening and why you need all the different parts to collect the sun’s rays so that your chocolate will melt.

This, of course, will take a lot longer than conventional smores (about two hours, depending on the heat of the sun on the day you’re doing it) but it’s a really fun project both to make the oven and to observe (and eat!) the smores in the end.

Have you ever made a solar oven with your kids? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Nourishing My Scholar.]

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Make a Solar Oven from a Cardboard Box

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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