An Unschooling Day

I really, really like the idea of unschooling. My fear though is that the picklets will not get the education they will need to survive when their homeschooling years are over. Now, we are hoping that won't be until after high school but that is only four short years away for Chip.

Yesterday we unschooled, mostly because I had chores to get done, but partly for the freedom. I found myself asking, "Do I need to find something productive for you to do?" It seemed that every time I left the room it opened the door to rough housing, loud noises and rowdiness that is not cool, especially around my buffet with our WWII china in it.

Our unschooling accomplishments for 10-1-08:

• All made plum crisp using fresh Iowa plums
• Dill continued reading Harry Potter
• Chip continued reading Animorphs
• Dill and Sweet drew and colored apples
• All worked on daily Sudoku puzzle
• All started their own cookbooks by writing down the recipe for applesauce
• Sweet was looking at the ads and figured out how much 4/$5 and 3/$5 is per piece
• All practiced piano
• All had piano lesson
• Dill and Sweet practiced recorder
• Chip practiced bass
• Sweet practiced "fancy" writing from the example in the Felicity Cooking Studio
• Sweet and I went through the Felicity Cooking Studio and picked out a couple of recipes to make this weekend
• Chip and Dill whittled new wands to use for casting spells
• Visited Grandma for a bit
• Dill downloaded and printed a ton of spells to practice with (37 pages)
• All had gymnastics practice
• Dill and Sweet visited an AWANAS after gymnastics for a friends "bring your friend to AWANAS week"
• Had a family supper since Cool was home: pizza soup, crusty garlic bread, plum crisp, milk

My question for all of you: Is that enough? What can I do to encourage learning on their own? What fun things can we do to incorporate the "basics" in without sitting down to the books? I really want to continue the unschooling without the fear of failure. HELP!