The article considers the problems of modern education, innovative teaching methods, with the description of their practical application in the world and domestic pedagogical practice. Theoretical and practical aspects of bricolage as an alternative approach to education are studied in detail. It offers practical study of the subject by means of non-standard use of various materials with the use of previously created objects as resources for new projects. Characteristic features of bricolage as an innovative teaching method and a step-by-step description of the process of its practical realization on the basis of the conducted experiment on the creation of a distance learning course Bricolage course on the basis of Google Class online service: "By teaching we learn". The conducted experiment is an attempt to optimize the process of teaching English to 6th grade pupils of a comprehensive school on the basis of joint use of information technologies and bricolage as an alternative approach to education. Statistical analysis and evaluation of the experimental data through the application of series of dynamics was carried out. The results obtained at the end of the experiment allow us to speak about its success and justify the choice of the experiment model, in which the parents of students were the instrument of bricolage.