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Toys, Puzzles, Dolls and More

Small Gorilla Puppet

If your child’s African Jungle themed puppet show is on the lookout for some great gorilla talent for its next production, look no further. This very cute gorilla is ready to take your child’s manual commands and put on quite the show. The construction of this puppet is superb with great fabrics and strong stitching […]

Glen Terrier Puppet

Just look at that face! Don’t you just want to eat him up? If you want an adorable dog puppet, either for yourself or your child, your search ends here. Testers could not tear themselves away. What else can we say.

Cartoon Cat Puppet

OK, this cat won’t win any adorable contests. The simple fact is that aesthetically this feline is more than a little challenged. But that didn’t keep young children from forming a bond with it, keeping it close at all times, and even using as a puppet. Some Moms reacted like you might expect if you

Disney Princess

Disney Princess

It has been so long since Disney released Little Mermaid that the children who were weaned on it are off to college already. What makes that remarkable is that Ariel hasn’t lost any of her appeal as one of Disney’s most beloved characters. Little girls gravitated to this colorful doll, and that is even before

Babys First EZ Dress Dolly

Babys First EZ Dress Dolly

When parent after parent submit rave review after rave review about a child’s first dress-up doll its safe to assume that there is a very hot product lurking about. Little ones took to this doll like fish to water, using the well-placed velcro strips to dress, undress and redress their baby. Its funny how children

Babys First Kisses

Babys First Kisses

A scrumptious doll that your little one will adore. Who doesn’t love getting a little extra love? This doll gives it in the form of kisses when you squeeze her tummy. Children fell instantly into role playing Mommy and Baby, while their parents told us what a great bargain they felt this doll was at

Scene It? Nickelodeon Game

You may not feel entirely “with it” if you try to keep up with your children in this new incarnation of the Scene It? franchise, especially if your children watch Nick Jr. without you. Everything “Nick” is in here from SpongeNeutron to JimmyBob or something like that. For kids, its a blast being able to

Tyco R/C Airblade

Tyco R/C Airblade

The hovercraft is here…finally! For years now we have been teased with promises that someday we would all be riding on cushions of air like Luke Skywalker and now…now…well, we still can’t. But there is a totally awesome toy that can. For kids who can’t drive anyway, this is just as cool anyway. With whirring

Tofu Bear

Tofu Bear

Tofu Bear is sweet, cuddly and made from soysilk. While most parents admitted that they rarely concerned themselves with the soysilk composition of their children’s dolls (soysilk is made from the waste produced during the manufacture of tofu), most told us that they were happy to know that such an adorable doll could be made

Fan Yang Ultimate Bubble Toy

Fan Yang Ultimate Bubble Toy

When our testers first saw this bubble making kit their first reaction was, “Who is Fan Yang? Should I know him?” Not many people know who the world’s foremost bubble champion is, which told us that the Fan Yang name wasn’t the key to all the rave reviews and there had to be something more.

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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