Who Are We
Founded by two moms, Snehal and Sai, Giggles & Glee Creative is a vibrant kids enrichment club in Durham Region. We create playful, hands-on spaces where children aged 5 to 12 replace screen time with imagination, developing vital life skills through after-school programs, STEAM workshops, camps, and birthday experiences.
Why We Started Giggles & Glee
We're Sai and Snehal - two moms who started Giggles & Glee because we were looking for something for our own kids: creative, hands-on experiences that would help them build confidence, collaborate, and use their imagination, most importantly, just enjoy being kids.
What we couldn't find was a place that brought all of this together creativity, connection, and real life-skill building - under one roof.
As busy parents ourselves, juggling work, home, and everything in between, sometimes a screen is simply the easiest way to keep a child occupied. We get that!
So we asked ourselves: what if kids had a place where they were excited to step away from screens because they were too busy creating, exploring and having fun?
We wanted to build that place right here in Durham Region not just for our own kids, but for every family looking for the same thing.
That thought became Giggles & Glee! Today, every session is built around 8 core life skills; the same eight arms on our octopus logo, so kids aren't just having fun, they're growing.
Sai, Co-Founder
Sai is a people person and a strong believer in human connection. With a background in Human Resources, her work has always centered around people, relationships, and helping others thrive. As a mom of twins, her journey into motherhood sparked a deeper interest in childhood development, eventually leading her to run The Learning Curve Preschool in Thane, India where her work earned the prestigious India Today Excellence Award, three years running.
Sai is also a certified Breathwork and Meditation Facilitator with the Art of Living Foundation, and a licensed Zumba instructor who promotes physical and mental well-being. Through Fierce40WithSai, she supports women, especially mothers, in finding greater balance, confidence, and calm. Sai believes children need more than academic learning, they need room to create, express themselves, and build confidence and essential life skills. That belief shaped Giggles & Glee: a space for children to discover who they are, and for families to create meaningful moments together.
Snehal, Co-Founder
With 13 years of corporate experience in ecommerce and strategy, Snehal brings a structured, thoughtful approach to everything she does. Her path to Giggles & Glee grew gradually, through years of doing Craft projects, Lego builds, and creative activities with her daughter and, over time, with her daughter's friends too. Watching how much these kids grew in confidence and imagination through simple, hands-on creativity, she began to see a gap: families in the community didn't have enough spaces built around this kind of creative, hands-on play.
Snehal is also a self-taught artist with a love for Lippan art and turning recycled materials into something beautiful, and a Yoga enthusiast who values mindful movement. Snehal brings that same hands-on, curious energy to everything she does with children. That observation became Giggles & Glee: a space created to give children the opportunity to create, explore, and grow.
"This started as two moms wanting something better for our own kids. It's grown into something we hope your family feels a part of too."
- Snehal & Sai, Co-Founders