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Backyard Safari Cargo Vest

Backyard Safari Cargo Vest

What a blast our little outdoor explorers, budding paleontologists and/bird/bug/spider/creepy-crawly watchers had when they donned this great Cargo Vest. The vest is made of high quality material that is both durable and lightweight, plus it is stain resistant making it very easy to clean. It is loaded with pockets and pouches for collecting bugs, rocks, […]

SPORTOS

SPORTOS

This innovative wooden puzzle provided testers with hours of entertainment while tapping into logic and problem solving skills. The set includes 71 pieces of rubber wood (a sustainable wood) that come in a variety of shapes and colors. There are 48 cards with figures that children can recreate. In this set the theme is obviously

Glow-in-the-Dark Lab

Glow-in-the-Dark Lab

Glow-in-the-Dark Lab features twenty experiments where your budding scientist (mad or the normal kind) can conjure up some truly cool projects. The directions are wonderfully laid out and so easy to follow. In no time testers were creating glow ink, glow in the dark creatures of all sorts, glowing bouncy balls and everyone’s favorite, glow

Speedeebee

Speedeebee

You have to think fast to be the speediest bee in the round as players answer challenges from the stack of 50 cards with 3 brain teasers each. “Name something you could find in a forest containing this letter (throw the die of your choice).” After rolling an “M”, players could yell out “moss,” “moose,”

Shrimp Cocktail

Shrimp Cocktail

Clearly in the world of Blue Orange rectangle playing cards are so 2010. This is a matching game that is more challenging and involved than you might believe given the fact that there is a squeezable star fish inside this tin can. The game is all about matching shrimp that have four varying characteristics that

Chef Cuckoo

Chef Cuckoo

Round is the new shape of playing cards, or at least it is if you base your opinion strictly on the series of games being released by Blue Orange Games. That in itself is not a bad idea since this company has been producing superb Seal of Approval winning games for years and years now.

Wallscapes Flower Garden

Wallscapes Flower Garden

If your daughter likes decorating and redecorating her room then this kit might inspire her to choose a garden theme next time. The set includes the materials to make five colorful flowers that feature bright petals and a choice of petals. The process is easy enough that a seven year old was easily able to

NASCAR Bashers

NASCAR Bashers

We weren’t sure how parents would review this car that is designed to crash, after all that isn’t exactly something parents want to glorify, right? Well we missed the mark on this one. Parents told us that they get it, their sons love to crash cars and no matter what vehicle you gave them, they

101 Great Gifts Kids Can Make

101 Great Gifts Kids Can Make

Conveniently organized into eight different sections including photos, garden gifts, office crafts, household helps, decorations, cards and wrapping paper/gift bags, there really is something for everyone and every occasion. Whether its a gift for Mom, Dad, a teacher or anyone special, chances are you’ll find an idea and instructions how to make it in this

Air Hogs Battle Tracker

Air Hogs Battle Tracker

An automated, laser seeking missile launcher that is a TOY? Oh AND a remote control helicopter that can shoot projectiles? If you are a young boy and someone were to tell you that there really was a toy that could do all that you might think they were pulling your leg. In fact when most

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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