List of Shell and Summer Shell Series Furniture & Item Recipes

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH), you can receive Shell and Summer Shell DIY Recipes by popping balloons with your slingshot! Go to any DIY Workbench to craft your newly-received recipes. For a list of Shell and Summer Shell DIY Recipes as well as how to find them and their materials, read on!

Shell-Related Pages
Shell Series	List of Shells	Summer Shells

List of Shell Item DIY Recipes

Shell Series

DIY Item	Required Materials
Sandy-Beach Flooring	・Giant Clam (×1) ・Cowrie (×1) ・Coral (×1) ・Sand Dollar (×1) ・Sea Snail (×1) ・Venus Comb (×1)
Shell Arch	・Giant Clam (×3) ・Cowrie (×3) ・Coral (×3) ・Sand Dollar (×3) ・Sea Snail (×3) ・Venus Comb (×3)
Shell Bed	・Stone (×4) ・Clay (×3) ・Giant Clam (×5)
Shell Fountain	・Stone (×3) ・Giant Clam (×5)
Shell Lamp	・Clay (×3) ・Giant Clam (×2)
Shell Music Box	・Iron Nugget (×2) ・Giant Clam (×3)
Shell Partition	・Venus Comb (×4) ・Conch (×4)
Shell Rug	・Giant Clam (×3)
Shell Speaker	・Iron Nugget (×2) ・Conch (×3)
Shell Stool	・Cowrie (×5)
Shell Table	・Clay (×3) ・Sand Dollar (×7)

Summer Shell Series

DIY Item	Required Materials
Shell Wand	・Star Fragment (×3) ・Summer Shell (×)
Shell Wreath	・Giant Clam (×1) ・Cowrie (×1) ・Coral (×1) ・Sand Dollar (×1) ・Sea Snail (×1) ・Summer Shell (×1)
Shellfish Pochette	・Giant Clam (×2) ・Summer Shell (×6)
Starry-Sands Flooring	・Summer Shell (×3) ・Sandy-Beach Flooring (×1)
Summer-Shell Rug	・Summer Shell (×6)
Tropical Vista	・Summer Shell (×5)
Underwater Flooring	・Coral (×3) ・Summer Shell (×3)
Underwater Wall	・Coral (×3) ・Summer Shell (×3)
Water Flooring	・Summer Shell (×6)

How to Get Shell DIY Recipes

Get from Balloon Presents

Like most DIY recipes, you can get DIY recipes for Shell items from balloon presents.

To learn more about getting presents from balloons, see our guide!

Summer Shell Series Recipes Only Available in Summer

One shell material called Summer Shells are only available during Summer, so you can only get summer-shell recipes during that season.

Get from Villagers

Your villagers will work on DIYs inside their own houses. If you talk to them, they'll share the DIY recipe with you!

There's guaranteed to be one villager doing DIY, so visit the houses with smoke coming out of the chimney till you find them!

Use our Recipe and Fruit Trading Board

Finding balloons is not an easy task. We recommend using our Trading Board to get the Shell and Summer Shell recipes you want!
Recipe and Fruit Trading Board (313852)

Receive the Shell Wreath Recipe During the Daily Broadcast

Summer officially starts when Isabelle announces the appearance of Summer Shells, which are only available during Summer.

Along with that, you will also receive the DIY recipe for the Shell Wreath during the daily island-wide broadcast.

You can also get the recipe from balloons!

It'ss also possible to get the recipe from balloons though, so don't worry if you missed the chance in the first couple of days of the event.

What is the Shell Series?

DIY Items Crafted Using Shell Materials

The Shell Series is furniture and items crafted from shells found on the beach and other DIY material. Collect them all to live the mermaid life.

Summer Shells are only available during Summer, so don't miss the chance to collect them!

All Shell Materials
Conch	Coral	Cowrie
Giant Clam	Sand Dollar	Sea Snail
Summer Shell	Venus Comb	-

Check each material's individual page for information on how to obtain them!

Summer Season

Summer is here when the grass turns vibrant green, and a new set of bugs and fish will appear.

You will also experience the longest day of the year called the Summer Solstice where the sun stays longer in the sky than usual.

This is also the time to collect Summer Shells, which are used to craft Summer Shell items!

Additionally, each month, Flick will also be hosting the Bug-Off, so be sure to join that!

List of Seasons and Seasonal DIY Items

Related Links

All DIY Guides and Recipe List Overview

DIY Recipes and Materials

DIY Recipe Collections

DIY Guides

DIY Item Series

DIY Series
Fruit Series	Trash Series
Space (Celeste) Series	Mermaid Series
Time-Limited Series
Bunny Day Series	Zodiac Series
Seasonal DIY Series
Bamboo Series	Cherry-Blossom Series
Shell Series	Tree's Bounty Series
Maple-Leaf Series	Mushroom Series
Ice (Frozen) Series	Snowflake Series
Festive Series	Spooky Series

List of Seasonal DIY Furniture & Item Recipes