What is stir?

Stir is when you move something around in a container to mix it up.

Imagine you have a bowl full of cereal and milk. If you just leave it alone, the cereal might sit at the bottom, and the milk stays on top. But if you take a spoon and swish it around, that's stirring! You're making everything move so the milk goes up and the cereal floats down, mixing them together into a yummy breakfast.

Sometimes, things don’t mix by themselves. Like when you’re making a drink with juice and water. If you just pour them in, they might sit separately. But if you stir, you make them all move around, like friends playing tag in the park, until everything is blended together evenly.

Stirring can also help things get warmer or cooler faster, like when you stir hot chocolate so it cools down quicker.

You can stir with a spoon, a whisk, even your hands if you're mixing something fun like playdough! The more you stir, the more mixed up everything gets.