I've offered to teach a 1 hour "make your own backpacking gear" session (x2) for the local high school's spring celebration.

I've already figured that we are going to make an origami cooking pot.

I wanted to have the students make their own stoves. I know there are a ton of pepsi can stoves out there, but the challenge that has been put in front of me by the organizers of this event is this:

- must be made from no more than one soda can
- must be made with standard classroom materials (pushpins, school scissors, etc. ... no drills, xacto knives)

Is there a stove out there that fits the bill? Thanks in advance for the links to sites with detailed instructions :)

Pepsi Can scissors hole punch. works for me.

Give this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pajkt594Ruw) a whirl and see what you think.

Give this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pajkt594Ruw) a whirl and see what you think.

The students would have to bring their own can for that to work, I suppose. The school can provide soda cans.

Can this be made with the bottom of a soda can instead of a cat food can?

I also know that there is only one hole punch in the room, but there will be 22 students. However, I don't think that it will take too long and within an hour, the hole punch should be able to make the rounds of all the students.

PS: I love your signature!

The students would have to bring their own can for that to work, I suppose. The school can provide soda cans.

Can this be made with the bottom of a soda can instead of a cat food can?

I also know that there is only one hole punch in the room, but there will be 22 students. However, I don't think that it will take too long and within an hour, the hole punch should be able to make the rounds of all the students.

PS: I love your signature!

If you use a cut down soda can, it won't have the same rigidity that a fancy fest can will, and hence, less support for anything that would sit on top of it, like apot of water waiting to boil.

Maybe try a soda can stove (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY_LKCFlG6k)?

The sig line is a necessity for March Madness. I'm a Tarheel born and a Tarheel bred. When I die I'll be a Tarheel dead.........

The sig line is a necessity for March Madness. I'm a Tarheel born and a Tarheel bred. When I die I'll be a Tarheel dead.........

You're getting confused with the Sooners again, whatever they are. The only time I will ever root for Carolina is when they are playing Duke, and even then my interest is entirely in seeing the Dookies lose.

Demon Deacons in the final four!

Demon Deacons in the final four!Um, yeah. I'll take "Things That Won't Happen This Year" for $100, please, Alex. :banana;)

Seriously, good luck in the Dance.

Um, yeah. I'll take "Things That Won't Happen This Year" for $100, please, Alex. :banana;)

LOL. Well, we blew our chances at a good seed position with our pathetic conference performance. Oh well. Still a very young team.

LOL. Well, we blew our chances at a good seed position with our pathetic conference performance. Oh well. Still a very young team.Oh well. Could have been one of the teams that didn't get in. Not to name any names.......Kentucky (ha ha!). Getting in the Dance is cool, but of course, not everyone can have a top seed. Like Carolina. Again. :D

Back to stoves....

Look through Zenstoves (http://zenstoves.net/Stoves.htm). I bet you'll find what you're looking for. Using only soda cans, the easiest might be the chimney stove (http://zenstoves.net/ChimneyStove.htm). I've found that kids have a bit of trouble fitting the can walls together for the traditional (http://ygingras.net/b/2007/6/a-better-soda-can-stove)soda can stove.

Cutting the holes in the center may take some creative thinking, if all you've got are some push pins and blunt nosed scissors... good luck. Also - ANY soda can stove is easier with two soda cans rather than just one (the tops get opened, so they're mostly useless) - but it can be done. I would think the school could spot the extra nickel to make the project more feasible for a classroom of students.

I could get the school to provide more than one soda can. I know some Earth Science teachers who could set their students upon the trash and have them separate out the aluminum cans that shouldn't be there to begin with.

I looked through Zenstoves but my searching skills were weak (and I kept getting distracted by all the pretties that I wanted to make for myself).

Out of curiosity, what material are you having them make the origami cooking pot out of? Do you have a good instructional website link?

I take the boys from our church on a "Man Camp" every summer and each time I have a project for them... survival kits one year, these (http://ygingras.net/b/2007/6/a-better-soda-can-stove)stoves last year, and am thinking through what to do this year.

by "origami cooking pot" do you mean from folded paper??

Holy Inferno batman!!

For light weight demo use, I don't see why a soda can with the holes punched in it wouldn't do just fine for light weight demo type thing. Certainly as good as a paper pot.

The problems I forsee are the top cut being off angle causing a tippy pot or sharp enough to cut the paper pot.

As another approach, if you figure out how to make a pot stand, you can just use the cut off soda can and make the pot holder so that there is an inch or so above the top of the stove. HOI does that with his wedding candle setup.

Get donations and buy some 1/4 inch squares hardware cloth???

I take the boys from our church on a "Man Camp" every summer and each time I have a project for them... survival kits one year, these (http://ygingras.net/b/2007/6/a-better-soda-can-stove)stoves last year, and am thinking through what to do this year.

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We have "Man Camps" also. we're going to make Mtn. Dew "Cobalts" this year. Green Label Art and NFL :) Will teach fire making skills also. They always seem to ahve a looooooooooong attention span when it comes to "fire":D

Without pyromania to go with it, opposable thumbs just don't make any sense.

Here's a stove made from ONE soda can, with no jet holes. (Capillary action brings the fuel up to the rim). Sosimple so easy. Invented by Boy Scouts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzGJzUxnwCM&feature=PlayList&p=494E1A2A761C0FD3&index=0&playnext=1