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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 […]

Poppin Shapes Aquarium

Poppin Shapes Aquarium

This wonderful toy for preschoolers gained high marks for its ability to entertain and elevate the child’s hand-eye coordination. Most children at this age love putting things in and taking things out of containers. This aquarium features bright colors, an imaginative design and a surprise element with each block that delighted young children. The toy

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

Furnished School Building

Furnished School Building

This gorgeous imagination playset completely caught the fancy of easy school aged children who loved the idea of acting out their perfect day at school. Children of this age are so enamored with everything about school, the teachers the various areas of the classroom, friends, play, etc. that is ripe for all kinds of open

Wildlife Care Station

Wildlife Care Station

When it comes to caring and compassion nothing matches the empathy children manage to exude when it comes to wildlife. For years testers have watched in amazement as kids, who would walk over a fallen sibling, will rush in a heartbeat to care for an animal in need. This beautiful play set has everything your

Words of the Wise

Words of the Wise

Ingeniously simple and simply ingenious. Here are the directions: blurt out as many answers to the topic in question, these topics might be Athletes, Cars, Movies, Fruits & Veggies, etc. Easy right? Oh wait, one more thing, you have to answer in alphabetical order! This great twist made this game just challenging enough to entertain

Phonics Vol. I

Phonics Vol. I

Rock ‘N Learn has made the business of creating fun learning videos an art form. They just know how to do it and time after time again our testers have recognized their skill with appreciative reviews. This video starts out with basic sounds then moves seamlessly to words and simple sentences. The age appropriateness of

Airhogs Vectron Wave

Airhogs Vectron Wave

We have reviewed many remote controlled toys over the years but this may be the first R/C toy without a remote. This new Airhogs toy flies and hovers in response to the palm of your hand! There is no transmitter, infrared or otherwise which led our testers to let loose with some serious “Wow’s”. The

Liv Dolls

Liv Dolls

Watch out Barbie there are some new girls on the block and they are strutting their way onto store shelves. Liv Dolls officially put fans of the “iconic one” on edge as tester after tester noted numerous innovations and advantages. We should state that this was not at all a competition but, for our testers,

Bakugan Battle Gear

Bakugan Battle Gear

There is no denying that Bakugan is a hugely popular line for Spin Master from the toy line to the cartoon episodes. We found that, according to our testers, the craze is well founded. The ingenious design of these Battle Gear toys, half Transformer half Rubiks Cube, really intrigued testers young and old. Each battle

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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