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TOADS of Fun

TOADS of Fun

This adorable family-fun board game will quickly become a favorite in your home as your children will play it again and again. The key here is that TOADS of Fun is so easy to learn, that you’ll be spinning the unique double spinner (no dice here), and jumping around lily pads looking for flies to […]

Perpetual Commotion

Perpetual Commotion

This may be the most frantic fun you’ll ever have playing a game. Gather three or more players, glance at the instructions which are minimal and very easy to understand, deal the cards and be sure to take a deep breath before shouting “Go”. Hands will be flying in Perpetual Commotion from start to finish.

Charoodles

Charoodles

Charades is such a wonderful game that it’s no wonder it has endured for generations. ThinkFun has added a twist, namely props, to the mix and boy, are you in for a treat. Teamed with a box filled with word and phrase cards players take turns using one or more of the four provided props

River Crossing Jr.

Logical thinking and deductive reasoning are celebrated in the this puzzle game from ThinkFun. The junior sized version of the award winning original presents players with increasingly more difficult challenges for getting their little man across the raging river. Parents were impressed at how logical their children were as they stepped back and examined the

Toot and Otto

Toot and Otto

Once you see Toot and Otto you’ll swear you’ve seen it before, and indeed the design is very similar to Connect Four, but the fun twist is that you are trying to drop letters in the slots to spell either Toot or Otto. That’s where the fun really comes in as you have to stay

Zocker Water Darts

Zocker Water Darts

Water toys have always had special appeal, perhaps its because they remind us of carefree summer days, laughter and sunshine. These water darts provided all that and more as testers tried their hands at accuracy throwing with soft foam darts. There are so many ways to play with this set, either in teams, one-on-one, or

Baffle Gab

Baffle Gab

We have all heard that the vocabulary you use goes a long way towards establishing how others perceive you. Being able to correctly and confidently use words to express our thoughts and ideas is something that we all should strive for. Baffle Gab is a game that celebrates words, their meanings and how we use

Letterflip

Letterflip

Hangman is a great game that most of us have played at one time or another. Apart from being fun, it’s also a good vocabulary exercise. Letterflip pays homage to the game while introducing a twist that makes it a terrific car travel toy. Two players are given a set of words that they must

Easy Come, Easy Go

Easy Come, Easy Go

Games of chance are a dime a dozen, each of which prove the principle that there is no such thing as a sure thing. In Easy Come, Easy Go, players must “go with their gut” making decisions about the roll of the dice. In Yahtzee-like fashion die are rolled multiple times in an atempt to

Anagramania

Anagramania

If you love word games, puzzles, or more specifically anagrams, then this is the game for you! If you see letters and your mind sees endless possibilities of words that can be formed with those letters, then you will be enthralled with Amagramania. However, If you dislike those things, well, this isn’t going to change

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A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor, and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period Testing Begins Submission Deadline Testing Ends Report Issued
SPRING ’24 February 15th March 13th April 19th May 8th
FALL ’24 June 1st June 24th July 31st August 15th
HOLIDAY ’24 September 1st September 24th October 31st November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* The Seal’s winners will be announced in a media release distributed to over 4,700 media outlets, including Facebook, Mommy bloggers, TV stations, newspapers, and parenting influencers.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and online stores including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured on TNPC’s website as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

To submit a product click here.

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor, and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There was three testing periods each year:

Each submission was accompanied by a small product testing fee (we offered multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* The Seal’s winners was announced in a media release distributed to over many media outlets, including Facebook, Mommy bloggers, TV stations, newspapers, and parenting influencers.

* The report were forwarded to buyers retail and online stores including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report were featured on TNPC’s website as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period Testing Begins Submission Deadline Testing Ends Report Issued
SPRING ’23 February 15th March 10th April 24th May 10th
FALL ’23 June 1st June 23rd July 31st August 16th
HOLIDAY ’23 September 1st September 22nd October 30th November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* Winners of the Seal will be announced in a media release which is distributed to over 4700 media outlets including Facebook, Mommy bloggers and TV station websites.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and on-line stores including Amazon, Walmart and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured at TNPC’s web site as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

To submit a product click here.

HOW IT WORKS

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period

SPRING '24

FALL ‘24

HOLIDAY ‘24

Testing Begins

February 15th

June 1st

September 1st

Submission Deadline

March 13th

June 23rd

September 24th

Testing Ends

April 26th

July 31st

October 31st

Report Issued

May 14th

August 15th

November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* Winners of the Seal will be announced in a media release which is distributed to over 4700 media outlets including Facebook, Mommy bloggers and TV station websites.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and on-line stores including Amazon, Walmart and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured at TNPC’s web site as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

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