How to Make a Heating Pad

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By staysik
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Heating pads helps relieve back pain

Heating pads are very nice to have and very easy to make! You can use heating pads for back pain, sciatic pain, arthritis, aching muscles or cold feet. You can make them in a few minutes and microwave them to warm them up in less than a minute.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Rice
Towel
Thread, matching the color of your towel
Sewing machine (or hand-stitch it with really small, close stitches so the rice will not come out)
optional: essential oils (try lavender, mint, jasmine)

Step 1

Essential oils added to the heating pad filling makes good aromatherapy

If you are going to add essential oils to make a pleasant-scented heating pad, lay the rice down and sprinkle a some drops of the essential oils on the rice. By the way, this in UN-COOKED rice we're using here.
Step 2

You can also add dried flowers like lavender

You can choose what size you want your heating pad to be- and the size of the heating pad is going to determine how much rice you will need to add. You want your heating pad about 2/3 full of rice. A good general-sized heating pad would be about the size of a piece of notebook paper. Hand towels are perfect for this size because you simply fold it in half!
Step 3

D.I.Y. heating pads are very simple and super-inexpensive to make

Fold your towel, and sew all but one of the sides shut. Turn it inside-out, so that the sewn seams are on the inside of your heating pad.
Step 4

Make your heating pad in minutes

Fill the towel with rice until it is about 2/3 of the way full. Now sew the open side closed. You can fold the pieces of towel together, and inside, like the other side seams, then stitch it closed.
Step 5

Heating pads provide muscle-pain relief

Now you have your heating pad and you can microwave it for about a minute, place it on your aching back and feel the pain melt away!!

**Since microwave strength varies, you may need to do this for a minute more, but microwave it at 30 second intervals so you don't burn up your heating pad.