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Seal of Approval Report

Rhyming, Sight Words, Initial Consonants Wipe-Off Bingo

Parents loved this small simple game that can be used in so many ways. This twist on traditional letters/numbers bingo was seen as a great educational tool to reinforce their children’s learning of sight words, rhyming, beginning reading and spelling, vocabulary, and letter recognition. This is great for groups of kids to play together. The […]

I Can Read Puzzles Challenge Cards

I Can Read Puzzles Challenge Cards

Here is yet another wonderful early education, take-along product from TREND. These cards have beautiful, eye catching cartoon pictures that allow children to build simple words and sentences. Each picture is part of a trio puzzle that, when matched up, makes a complete picture. Each card also has a word or two on them and

Alphabet Fun Sock Monkeys Wipe-Off Book

Educational workbooks that utilize dry erase markers are a real favorite with parents. Being able to reuse and return to specific pages, or to the entire book, makes them eco-friendly and cost effective—especially if there are multiple children in the family. As for children, it’s just more fun and much easier to make corrections. With

Edupath

Edupath

Edupath is a mobile app designed to let teenagers take their SAT prep work with them so they can practice during downtimes. Admittedly some teenagers were initially reluctant to use the app but once they began they were hooked. The reason is that Edupath has created a system that is deceptively fun. In fact some

Glow Pets

Glow Pets

Glow Pets are oversized stuffed animals with a magical light hidden inside the body that makes them glow in the dark. There will always be something magical about anything that glows in the dark or lights up a room at night. The soft fabric covering the animals, which include unicorns, seals and the like, lends

PopStars! Stage

PopStars! Stage

There are all kinds of environments as the theme or centerpiece of play sets. Over the years we were pretty sure we had seen them all, until now. PopStars! Stage uses a big colorful stage as the backdrop of this toy. The set comes with 4 pop star figures, each in different poses. Children are

Zipperoos

Zipperoos

The Zipperoo monkey and frog are so darn adorable its very easy to forget that they are really the packaging for a game. Well, that’s not entirely accurate—they are part of the game, but those big smiling eyes… Inside the zipper, which is located on the back of each character, are a number of circular

BOOM BOOM BALLOON GAME

BOOM BOOM BALLOON GAME

As a family or group game Boom Boom Balloon proved over and over that it is an absolute blast. If you and your children like to laugh and scream and giggle and jump out of your seats then look no further for your next family game night purchase. As you take turns pushing “spikes” into

HEDBANZ ACT UP

HEDBANZ ACT UP

Families flipped over Hedbanz Act Up, a blend of traditional Hedbanz meets charades. Kids really enjoyed acting out the cards and everyone had fun guessing what they were. This is the ideal family game because everyone gets in on the fun and laughter. You know that kids all think it is hysterical to watch mom

LOGO PARTY

LOGO PARTY

This game is both a great party game for big groups and a sociological experiment. How much are we pawns in the great game of corporate branding? After all testers played this game over and over, it was apparent that branding is doing quite well, thank you. Cynicism aside, there is a whole lot of

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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