Name things that are solid AND liquid

[Frontpaw]

So we found solid. We found liquid. Solid AND liquid? Oh come on??

Egg, paint, ice cream float?

This is junior school!

Ice

or mercury

Water/Ice

Soap

Goldschlager

Custard

Cornflour and water mixed up.

Custard

Butter?

dh says glass??

Chocolate

jelly!

ice cream

Jam

most stuff that reacts to being heated/frozen

Candle wax?

just googled and it says something that is at it's own melting point. (but I guess has not actually melted?/)

Saturated fat?

Google sols and gels, plucked from ancient a level chemistry memory so could be wrong. Remember custard and jelly given as examples.

Cornstarch and water mixed! Google 'oobleck' :)

Wow just read op properly, primary school. Scary.

liquid takes the shape of a container it's in
solids have a fixed shape unless they are altered by a force (pushing/cutting etc)

so talcum powder/sand/custard are liquids & solids

ice is a solid but heated it's a liquid, it's not both things at the same time

Apparently glass is both. I find that hard to understand......

Helium at absolute zero (0 deg kelvin)

Glass is actually a supercooled liquid.

Very old glass windows become thicker at the bottom than the top.

The first thing that popped into my mind was a triumphant 'non-Newtonian Fluid! Ha!' I'd heard of oobleck too - but for an eight year old... I think I'll get him to mix up some quicksand and take that in.

Thanks for the ideas! I wish the teachers would give the kids a cue though sometimes!

Sand and talc are solids not liquids.
Yes an amount of sand will take the shape of the container it's in and will pour however you have to consider the actual grain of sand in determining it's state.
One grain of sand is a solid and does not take the shape of a container.
You could fill a bowl with peas and pour them out but this does not mean they are a liquid.