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Kits & Crafts

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 […]

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

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

My Wall Easel

Everyone needs a creative place to call their own. An outlet for their expressive nature, where rainbows and dolphins and houses and bright yellow suns can shine. Being able to have a place hanging on the wall, ready and accessible whenever the mood strikes is such a marvelous gift to give your child. Our testers

Color & Cuddle Washable Poodle

The combination of a soft cuddly doll that your child gets to color and decorate in their own inimitable style scored high marks with testers. Using big bold lines ALEX has made it that much easier to stay within the lines and create a multicolored puppy that any budding artists will be proud to carry

Zebra Mix

Zebra Mix

Zebra Mix is a wonderful and creative way that both introduces and enhances the fun of baking to children. Everything you need to make delicious culinary concoctions are found in the adorably designed tin lunch box. What really sets this product apart is the ingenious map that makes the experience an even more exciting adventure

Crayola Beginnings Color Me A Song

This new offering from the venerable Crayola company provided hours of entertainment for testers who loved being able to lose themselves in the artistic experience that not only gave them a blank canvas on which to work, but accompanied their drawing with music. The musical selection is delightful and what makes it amazing is that

Crayola Color Explosion Glow Dome

Get ready to be blown away when the lights go out. There is something about seeing your creations come to life in the magic of darkness and Crayola has tapped into the feeling with the Color Explosion Glow Dome. By cutting out pictures and tracing onto plastic which is then inserted into the glow dome,

Paperoni

Paperoni

Creativity is turned on its ear with Paperoni, the newest crafts kit that absolutely everyone has heard of, thanks to an almost 24/7 advertising campaign. But to use it is quite different from being told you will love it on TV. So our testers got their chance to put Paperoni through its paces and while

Glodoodle

Glodoodle

A huge hit in our testing centers the Glodoodle entranced young and old with its innovative design and bright light up results. The board itself could not be easier to use. You can draw using the included stylus, but just about anything will do, including fingers. Families loved drawing lines and shapes and even their

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 ’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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