Pieces of Learning started with a problem every teacher and parent knows: the best hands-on materials are expensive, they get used for a few afternoons, and then they sit in a bin. We thought families deserved a way to try the whole experience — without buying, or storing, all of it.
Between the two of us, we have spent years watching kids light up over the right project — and watching good materials go to waste. A robotics set that gets built once. A science kit that is missing two pieces by the second use. Shelves of half-finished ideas that cost a fortune and taught less than an afternoon of real, guided play.
We kept coming back to the same idea: what if it worked like a library, but for hands-on learning? Pick a kit, bring it home, give your child two full weeks to dig in, then send it back for the next family. Everything curated by teachers, packed complete, and paired with a guide written so any parent can run it — no lesson-planning, no shopping list, no clutter left behind.
So we built it. Every kit is chosen and assembled by educators, cleaned and inspected between families, and picked up right here in Chattanooga or delivered to your door. The goal is simple: help your child find the thing that makes them light up — while they just think they are playing.
Madison spent six years in the classroom, teaching across math, digital fabrication, and entrepreneurship — the kind of subjects where kids learn most by making something real. She is the teacher who would rather hand a student a pile of materials and a genuine problem than a worksheet, and she brings that same instinct to how every Pieces of Learning kit is chosen and built: start with what a child can do with their hands, then design everything around it.
Emily spent ten years in K–12 education built around robotics, storytelling, and hands-on learning. She knows how to turn a box of parts into an experience with a beginning, a middle, and a moment where it finally works — and how to write it all down so a parent with no teaching background can lead it at the kitchen table. That craft shows up in the guide tucked into every kit.
A kit should have every piece it needs and a clear thing to make. No missing parts, no “you will also need…” — just open it and start.
Everything is chosen and tested by educators, and paired with a guide designed to support skills like problem solving, storytelling, and spatial reasoning — without pretending to guarantee outcomes.
Two weeks with a kit tells you far more than a review ever could — what holds their attention, what is worth owning, and what was just a phase.
Kits come complete and go back complete. Your child keeps the memory and what they made; you keep your closets.
Pick your dates, choose a kit, and see what two weeks of hands-on play can do — with pickup or delivery across Chattanooga.