What is melt?

Melt is when something goes from being solid to liquid because it gets warmer.

Imagine you have a chocolate bar, that's solid. If you put it in the sun or near a warm lamp, after a while, it starts to squish and flow, that’s liquid now. That’s what melt means!

Think about ice cream on a hot summer day. It starts as a solid, cold and firm. But when the sun shines on it, or you leave it in the sun for too long, it becomes liquid, all wiggly and soft. That’s melting!

When something is warm, its tiny pieces (called molecules) move faster. In a solid, they’re all tight and still. When they get warmer, they start to move more and spread out, that’s when it changes into a liquid. Like how you might squish together in a toy car on a hot day, everyone moves around more!

So next time you see something go from hard to soft or wiggly, you’ll know it's melting!