How to Make Neck-Heating Corn Pads

Corn is a good filler for heating pads.

Neck-heating corn pads are capable of being heated up in a microwave for warmth or even stored in a freezer to create a cooling pad. These pads are simple and straight forward to make, and they make excellent gifts.

Things You'll Need

• Fabric
• Corn
• Herbs and additives

Instructions

1. Mix the ingredients to fill your corn pad. In addition to corn, you may also want to add spices, essential oils and herbs as desired in order to improve the smell of the heating pad while it is warm.

2. Design a long rectangular heating pad for multi purpose use, or shape your heating pad like an oversized "C" in order to create an efficient heating pad specifically for your neck.

3. Cut out your fabric pieces in the desired shape and put them right-sides together with sewing pins. Make sure to leave some allowance on one end so that you can insert the filling after sewing everything together.

4. Now create your pad by hand-sewing or machine-sewing a favorite fabric. If you are looking for a simple fix, you can simply use a clean sock with a knot at the end to create an easy corn pad.

5. Once you have sewn together the pieces of your corn heating pad, you can turn everything right side out and begin to stuff your filling inside.

6. Once your heating pad is properly filled up with corn and other additives, you can hand-stitch the end closed to completely seal up the heating pad. You should make sure that it is filled up nicely but also still has some flexibility so that it can be wrapped around your neck.

7. Once your neck-heating corn pad is finished, using it means placing it in the microwave for a short amount of time. The average amount of time for a neck corn pad is between two and three minutes, although you may need to adjust this time based on the size of your corn pad.

Tips & Warnings

• These heating pads become quite hot if left in the microwave for too long! Make sure to lightly touch the heating pad to check its temperature before you place it around your neck in order to avoid sustaining burns.