Wax Pouring Fortune Telling (Bleigießen)

Place a small piece of wax onto a metal spoon and hold it carefully over a candle flame until it melts.

Once fully melted, pour the liquid wax quickly into a bowl of cold water.

Watch it harden instantly into a random shape as it hits the water.

Lift the hardened wax out and study its shape, discussing as a group what it might resemble and what fortune it could represent for the coming year.

Take turns so everyone gets a shape to interpret, keeping the flame and hot spoon handled by one careful adult at a time.