With the arrival of December, many Animal Crossing: New Horizons players are now enjoying even more new surprises for the festive season.

Starting from December 15th, players in the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere will be able to obtain and craft Festive Christmas Ornament items. You can find quick guide about how to unlock these DIY recipes and obtain the necessary materials for them below:

Gathering Festive Ornament Materials

• Festive Ornament materials and DIY recipes are only available from December 15th till January 6th for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
• During this period, a few pine trees on the island will be decorated with festive Christmas lights, shaking these trees will cause them to drop ornaments of three different colors (Red, Yellow, Blue).
  • Festive pine trees can be shaken continuously for endless ornaments.

Festive Christmas Ornament Recipes

There are  a total of 14 different Festive Christmas Ornament Recipes that can be crafted using the three different colored ornaments. All of them can be obtained by popping balloons with the slingshot except for the following:

• Ornament Wreath is obtained from Isabelle during her opening announcements.
• Festive Wrapping Paper can only be obtained from Jingle during the Toy Day event.

If you wish to craft all the Festive Christmas Ornament DIY recipes, you will need the following materials:

• 43 Blue Ornaments
• 42 Gold Ornaments
• 36 Red Ornaments
• 17 Iron Nuggets
• 12 Clay
• 10 Wood
• 7 Tree Branch
• 5 Weeds
• 1 Hardwood

A full breakdown of all the required materials for each recipe can be found below (big thanks to GameWith and Animal Crossing World for compiling this list):

Item	How To Get	Materials
Ornament Wreath	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Blue Ornament ×6 Gold Ornament ×2
Big Festive Tree	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Red Ornament ×6 Blue Ornament ×6 Gold Ornament ×4 Wood ×5 Clay ×5
Ornament Mobile	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Red Ornament ×1 Blue Ornament ×1 Gold Ornament ×1 Branch　×4
Festive Tree	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Red Ornament ×3 Blue Ornament ×3 Gold Ornament ×2 Wood ×5
Festive Wall	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Red Ornament ×5 Blue Ornament ×5 Gold Ornament ×5 Clay ×5
Illuminated Tree	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Red Ornament ×8 Blue Ornament ×8 Gold Ornament ×6 Iron Nugget ×6
Illuminated Snow	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Blue Ornament ×9 Iron Nugget ×3
Festive top set	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Gold Ornament ×2 Hardwood ×1
Tabletop Festive Tree	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Gold Ornament ×5 Branch　×3 Clay ×2
Illuminated Reindeer	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Gold Ornament ×6 Iron Nugget ×5
Illuminated Present	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Red Ornament ×3 Gold Ornament ×4 Iron Nugget ×3
Festive Candle	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Red Ornament ×5 Weeds ×5
Festive Rug	Pop balloons from 12/15 to 1/6	Red Ornament x5 Gold Ornament x5 Blue Ornament x5
Festive Wrapping Paper	Talk To Jingle On Toy Day	Red Ornament x1 Gold Ornament x1 Blue Ornament x1

That’s the general gist of this batch of new Winter DIY recipes. Be sure to check back later this month for more details about the Toy Day event.

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