Sprout Kids is a kids and baby brand founded in Provo, Utah, in 2011.
Much of Sprout's furniture holds together without a single screw. The tabs and slots are cut with a calculated amount of interference, so the parts press into each other and the tension keeps them there. A rubber mallet helps the first time, and the company says assembly gets easier with every round after that. Every piece is designed and built in one Provo workshop, which is unusual for anything that ships flat.
Clark Davis started Sprout around one idea: furniture that could move and grow with the people who own it. A retailer that carries the line says he studied mechanical engineering and had already built easily movable furniture in college. Davis has described the problem in plain words. Most flat-pack furniture gets put together "with some screws, and when you move you throw it away." Anyone who has carried a particleboard bookcase down a stairwell knows how that story ends.
The joints work because of the wood. Sprout builds in Baltic birch, plywood made from birch veneers grown around the Baltic Sea, with the same wood running all the way through instead of a softer core. Where a knot falls out of a sheet, the mill fills the hole with a patch. Sprout buys the patched sheets on purpose, it says, to cut waste and keep prices down.
For its first eight years Sprout sold modular storage and kids' furniture. In 2019 it found a second audience in Montessori homes and schools, which want furniture sized for the child rather than the adult. The floor bed sits low enough for a toddler to climb in alone, and the company rates it to 450 pounds and pitches it for co-sleeping, a number that accounts for the parent who lies down for one more story. Sprout says it has helped more than 100,000 families set up rooms that way.
The company calls the usual path from factory to shopper "a giant game of telephone," with an order passed from retailer to importer to factory to supplier. Sprout skips most of those calls by selling directly and building in its own shop, where design and manufacturing share a roof with customer support.
Not every step happens in Utah. The birch comes from the Baltic region, and the finished sheets are coated at a UV finishing plant in the Northwestern United States before they reach Provo. Many of the best sellers earned GREENGUARD Gold certification for low chemical emissions in August 2025.
Wood pieces carry a five-year warranty, and school-grade pieces get ten. Because everything is modular, a broken part gets replaced on its own, and after the warranty runs out Sprout still sells the part for a small fee. The furniture was designed to survive a move. It also has to survive a toddler, which is the harder test.
On Sprout's Meet the Makers page, the production worker who builds its toddler towers lists his main interest as anything to do with space.
