Complete Guide to Collecting All Festive DIY Recipes in Animal Crossing

The holiday season has kicked off in the Northern Hemisphere islands of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Starting December 15, you’ll notice festive decorations and twinkling lights adorning your town, along with a host of new seasonal items. To help you navigate this cheerful time, we’ve got tips on collecting and crafting these items, including snowflake and snowboy recipes. Transform your island into a cozy holiday village with ornament wreaths, reindeer lights, and festive trees.

**How Do I Get Festive Recipes?**
You can snag festive recipes in a similar way to some snowflake recipes and other seasonal DIYs: by shooting down present balloons. While the balloons follow a predictable pattern, the items they drop are a bit of a mystery. Be prepared to spend some time farming them to gather all the festive goodies. Position yourself at a beach where balloons spawn and keep an eye out. Balloons will appear at either the fourth or ninth minute of every ten-minute cycle. They take about a minute to drift to shore, so you’ll need to be alert and run along the beach to spot them. Shoot them down until you collect the recipes you want. It can be a bit tedious, but it’s the most effective way to gather these festive recipes.

**What Do I Need For Festive Recipes?**
To craft various festive recipes, you’ll need to gather gold, red, and blue ornaments, which can be found in trees adorned with lights. Shake the trees vigorously to collect these ornaments, similar to how you’d gather acorns. Since ornaments drop randomly, make sure to shake as many trees as you can; sometimes a single tree might yield five different ornaments!

**What Are The Festive Recipes?**
Here’s a list of some festive recipes you can craft:
– Ornament wreath (given by Isabelle)
– Illuminated reindeer
– Holiday candle
– Jingle wall
– Ornament mobile

Other festive DIYs include:
– Big festive tree
– Festive tree
– Festive top set
– Illuminated tree
– Tabletop festive tree
– Illuminated snowflakes
– Illuminated present