Cytoskeleton

The cytoskeleton is like a super strong yet flexible skeleton inside your body's cells that helps them maintain their shape and structure, like a building's framework. It's made up of tiny, thread-like structures called microfilaments, intermediate filaments, and microtubules that criss-cross and support everything inside the cell, from the nucleus to the organelles.

Imagine playing with building blocks, and you stack them up to make a tower. If you imagine the blocks as the "organelles" inside a cell, the cytoskeleton would be like the wooden or metal rods you use to hold the blocks together so the tower doesn't fall down. The cytoskeleton also helps the cell move and carry things around, like a worker carrying a bucket of blocks around the construction site.

So just like a skeleton helps you stand up and move around, the cytoskeleton helps the cell keep its shape and move around too!