An accidental curriculum

The other day, we wandered through our lovely, old, understated, unpretentious town centre. We stopped to chat with the lady who works at the leather shop. As we left, she kindly sent us away with a free bag of scrap leather. All sorts of hides from all sorts of creatures, in many colours and textures.

Since then, we have been plaiting whips, wearing leather head bands and collaging leather artworks. We now need to go back and ask a few technical questions about tanning and manufacturing.

This accidental experience has added another coat of mental paint to our understanding of things we've been reading lately. It's fun to stumble into learning and experiences we weren't expecting.

Similar, but different, is the "curriculum of curiosity" in this post. I would love for our learning life to be more like this. But my sanity is only welcoming so much curiosity at this stage. And that is fine. It's nice to have a picture of what we'd like to grow toward.