A handful of household items is all you need to make your own pinhole eclipse viewer: tape, aluminum foil, paper, scissors and (maybe) a cereal box.

Others were skeptical. “They don’t come with instructions, because that’s not how any sane person closes a cereal box,” one opined. “Very cool,” someone else observed.

Build your own solar eclipse viewer with a cereal box: Easy DIY instructions Homemade pinhole eclipse viewers an alternative to fancy glasses for viewing solar eclipse on April 8. Only a sliver of ...