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.

Step 2, making the pinhole projector Follow these instructions for creating your box pinhole projector. Using a pencil, trace one end of the box onto the white sheet of paper. Next, cut out the shape.

Melis based his cereal box viewer design on NASA 's. He got interested in solar eclipse viewing during the 2017 eclipse at the ripe old age of 9.

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