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Bendaroos 3-D Activity Kit

Bendaroos 3-D Activity Kit

If you are looking for a great art project for a rainy or snowy indoor day, one that does not leave you with a huge mess to clean up, look no further. Waxy yarn wraps around the included sticks then they hold together to create a number of designs. There is a good instruction booklet …

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Pencil Play Pals Pencil Games

Pencil Play Pals Pencil Games

This beautiful, colorful and extremely sturdy book holds a virtual cornucopia of fun under the cover. Each illustration is engaging, appealing and very well drawn. There loads of games to play and each game comes with instructions that impressed parents with its clarity and especially its writing style that felt more like an explanation from …

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My Take Along Puppet Theater

My Take Along Puppet Theater

Now you can give your child, the aspiring playwright or actor, a traveling showplace of their own. This pint-sized yet fully detailed puppet theater packs up neatly and securely for taking your show on the road, whether that road leads to grandmas or a play date. Parents loved how this gave their children a venue …

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Crayola Chalk Maker

Crayola Chalk Maker

Parents and kids alike gave big thumbs up to this new craft kit from Crayola that gave them the power to make their own chalk. Unique and appealing, parents found the experience to be particularly rewarding for the recommended age group as well as for themselves. The instructions are completely straightforward and the entire process …

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Crayola Spira Chalk Blaster

Let the neighbors know to expect very colorful sidewalks this summer, because the Spira Chalk Blaster is coming to town. This battery free toy combines the best of spin art and sidewalk chalk drawing. Just place the included chalk in the Blaster, spin up the torque and let it go. Kids were deliriously happy as …

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Young Artists Texture Painting Set

The gift of creative expression is among the most powerful and important we give to our children. This 12 piece set has everything you need to experiment with color, texture, paint and patterns. Inside the reusable, portable bag you’ll find washable tempera paint, texture tools, paint tray and even paper. There is also a very …

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Wind-Up Workshop Robots

Wind-Up Workshop Robots

Have you run into those curious shops in tourist destinations like The Last Wound Up? Have you found yourself pulled in or followed your children only to find yourself entranced with those wobbly, walking wind-ups? Creativity for Kids knows that it is more than just a few of us that have had that experience and …

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Recycled Cardboard Dollhouse

Recycled Cardboard Dollhouse

We are all becoming aware of the impact our lives and our lifestyles have on the environment and even though they are small now, the lives of our children leave a footprint as well. Creativity for Kids has taken caring to the environment into the imagination play arena by packaging together a kit that is …

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Ready, Set, Cut!

This exceptionally simple, easy to use kit provides an unmatched fine motor skills experience for young children. Inside you will find scissors, glue, stickers and a pamphlet with nine different designs. Young testers were delighted with the opportunity this kit gave them to create, cut and generally express themselves artistically. The pride of showing off …

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Beautiful Blob Slime

Beautiful Blob Slime

Fun, creative, imaginative and entertaining, Beautiful Blob Slime was a hit in our testing centers. It isn’t often that we get reports that each and every experiment in a “science” kit works but this was the exception. Kids eagerly set about the tasks of making cool, slimy, colorful worms, bugs, fish eggs and berries while …

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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 ’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

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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

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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