The little booklets carried by Radio Shack in the 1970's (transistor projects, 555 timer projects, op amp projects, etc.) had a chapter for each small project. I would have learned more earlier in life if I'd built each project, but I tended to say puerile things like 'Why do I need a unanimous vote detector?', unaware it's important to gain a knowledge of electronic concepts as building blocks.
Nowadays the internet has many tutorial websites. To obtain hardware see if your town has a Radio Shack or else look into mail order suppliers with kit assortments of resistors, capacitors, potentiometers, led's, sensors, detectors, etc.
One of the best things anyone gave me was the Radio Shack 300-in-one electronics lab. The included breadboard made a rapid step forward in my learning process. The instruction manual has a paragraph for each project, telling how to work it, giving background concepts, etc.