Activity registration child’s play
By Christine Davis
Kids are notorious for changing their minds about activities. They want to be a yogi one day and a baseball player the next. It’s fine to change your mind and great to try new things, but it’s frustrating, time consuming and costly for parents.
Making child’s play out of registering kids for a variety of activities in the GTA, PipsPass is Canada’s only class pack system.
“PipsPass wants kids to be involved in the decision making process so they can choose what they want to do and when they want to do it,” said Arielle Holden, CEO and co-founder of PipsPass. “Our curated collection includes the city’s best providers of recreation that takes kids from baby all the way into young adulthood.”
Offering a wide range of fun and learning for children from 0-15, PipsPass has options from robotics to music classes to outdoor adventures, all of which are just a click away.
Available in flexible, affordable packages of three, five or 10 classes that can be scheduled with 90 different programs in the GTA online 24 hours a day, once purchased parents can search activities online by age, location time and type. It’s an easy way to find programs you might not otherwise have known about.
“Family life is busy – not all parents work 9-5, and kids’ schedules and interests can change on a dime,” continued Holden. “With PipsPass, we are aiming to help kids take charge in a way that provides the kind of flexibility families need to put the fun back in recreation.”
Inspired by their own challenges of finding new an exciting activities for their kids to try, Holden and her sister Aviva Wittenberg knew there were many brilliant programs in the GTA catering to kids, “but without someone recommending them, it was really hard to discover them on our own,” Holden explained.
“We thought – what if someone could do the research for you to find fun recreation options around the city, instead of spending hours searching online? And what if those options came with the flexibility to follow our children’s interests, which are ever-changing?”
And thus PipsPass was born.
