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"Thanksgiving means many things: counting one&amp;#039;s blessings, being with family and friends, and...the start of the holiday shopping season. If you&amp;#039;re planning your Black Friday buying strategies, or if, as predicted in a New York Times article, you don&amp;#039;t intend to even wait until Thanksgiving is over but shop online right after your Thursday get-together, then you&amp;#039;ll probably want to check out the winners of Good Housekeeping&amp;#039;s 2010 Best Toy Awards.  To select the 24 awards winners, which range in price from $10 to $80 and provide hours of play and promote creativity, hand-eye coordination, and artistic and scientific skills, the Good Housekeeping Research Institute conducted an in-depth evaluation. We first reviewed hundreds of toys to assess their &amp;quot;fun factor&amp;quot; and considered their ability to spark children&amp;#039;s imaginations and skill-building capabilities. After narrowing the list to the most promising 75 toys and board games, we brought almost 100 children, ages 4 to 16, into our state-of-the-art product- testing lab in New York City four four days to evaluate the toys for themselves. Board games were also sent home with families to assess their enjoyment over the course of a month. Before being evaluated by kid toy testers, all toys were required to pass the Research Institute&amp;#039;s safety evaluations, including a drop test to determine if a toddler toy can break into small pieces and pose a choking hazard. The toys and board games were also reviewed to insure they meet industry safety stands before being selected as winners. The winners of Good Housekeeping&amp;#039;s Toy Awards are showcased in our December issue. If you&amp;#039;d like to enter to win one of the best toys, from Black Friday, November 26 until December 10, Good Housekeeping will give away 2010 Best Toy Awards to winners in a Twitter contest. Go to http://twitter.com/goodhousemag to enter. Check out our segment about the Toy Awards on the Today Show: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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