Toy Day: Christmas Event Guide

This is a guide to Toy Day, a Christmas event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) for the Nintendo Switch. Read on to learn when Christmas starts, as well as what you can do during the event, where to find Jingle, and the new items and prizes you can get!

Toy Day Event
Toy Day	How to Find Jingle	Festive Series
Christmas Custom Designs	Toy Day Furniture	Snowboys

Toy Day Date and Time

Date	December 24, 2023
Time	5 AM–5 AM (next day)

Toy Day happens on December 24th every year and starts at 5 AM You'll be able to play the event until 5 AM the next day.

Toy Day Event Guide

Find Jingle

Jingle will appear in the Resident Services area at 6 AM on the day of the event. You can easily distinguish him from the rest of your villagers as he's a reindeer wearing a Santa Outfit.

He will tell you he is helping Santa deliver presents on your island and will ask for your help!

How to Find Jingle

Get the DIY Recipe for Festive Wrapping Paper

After you agree to help Jingle deliver presents, he'll give you the DIY recipe for the Festive Wrapping Paper. You need to craft three of these to start delivering presents to your villagers.

To craft the DIY recipe, you need one Gold Ornament, one Blue Ornament, and one Red Ornament. You can get these materials by shaking festive trees on your island.

Get Ornaments from Isabelle

You can also get ornaments from Isabelle iin the Resident Services. Talk to her to receive 3 of each ornaments for free!

Time to Play Santa!

Once you have crafted 3 Festive Wrapping Paper, Jingle will give you the Toy Day Stockings furniture and the Magic Bag tool; the latter allows you to carry the presents you'll need to give to your villagers.

Give the Presents to the Villagers

With the Magic Bag equipped, you can now go around and fill Santa's role in gifting villagers. Talk to any villager and give them their gift from inside the Magic Bag.

You'll automatically give the right gifts to your villagers, so you don't need to worry about picking something specific.

Check inside the Magic Bag

You can check inside the bag to find out how many gifts are left. If there are less than three villagers that need presents, the bag will tell you who the villagers are! This is very helpful if you lose track of who has a gift or not!

Santa Outfit is Optional

You don't need to wear the full Santa outfit in order to give out gifts. It is completely optional, though we recommend wearing it to enhance the holiday theme! Your villagers may even make a comment about it!

Toy Day Rewards

Once you've delivered all of the gifts, return to Jingle so you can get his rewards.

Gift Pile DIY Recipe

If you delivered gifts to more than half of the residents of your island, you'll get the Gift Pile DIY recipe.

Toy Day Sleigh

If you delivered gifts to every villager on your island, you will receive the Toy Day Sleigh furniture.

Jingle's Photo

You'll also get an additional reward if you hang your Toy Day Stockings in your home. Interact with it the next day to get Jingle's Photo!

What to Do When You Can't Find Villagers?

Not all villagers are roaming around the island on Toy Day. Some are staying indoors! If you can't find a specific villager, check inside their house!

Jingle will stay on the island until 5 AM of the next day, so you will have plenty of time to find missing villagers.

Exchange Gifts with Villagers

After finishing your rounds as Santa, you can exchange gifts with your residents! Simply have an item wrapped up with any wrapping paper, and talk to the villager to exchange gifts with them.

The gifts that you will receive are from the Toy Day Series of furniture that are sold in Nook's Cranny. They are also in a different variant from what's sold at Nook's! Exchanging gifts with your villagers is a great way to get different variations of the Toy Day series in one go!

Receive Wrapping Paper

If you don't have a gift to give to resident, they'll give you some Wrapping Paper to get started! Make sure to prepare a nice gift for your villagers!

Toy Day Activities

Purchase Toy Day Gifts

Nook's Cranny will start selling Toy Day gifts from December 1 to December 25. You can give these to your villagers on Toy Day or you can purchase one for your own house!

You can only have one variaton of each gift! If you want another variation, you'll have to visit a friend's island and buy from their Nook's Cranny.

Get the Festive Series

Festival Series Furniture
Illuminated Reindeer	Illuminated Present

DIY recipes for the Festive Series will start appearing from December 15 to January 6 in Gift Balloons . If you want your island to have that festive feel, make sure to grab them all!

List of Festive Series Furniture and Items

Make Snowboys

Snowboy reappears in New Horizons to reward you with some neat recipes - provided you build him perfectly! Look for snowballs around your island and learn how to create a perfect Snowboy every time!

How to Make Snowboys

Dress Up as Santa!

From December 1 to December 23, Able Sisters will start selling the Santa Hat, Santa Beard, Santa Coat, and Santa Pants. If you happen to miss out the sale, the entire outfit is available on December 24 all at once.

List of Toy Day Clothes

Reindeer Costume	Santa Pants	Santa Coat	Santa Hat
Santa Beard	Reindeer Hat

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July To-Do List and Events	August To-Do List and Events
September To-Do List and Events	October To-Do List and Events
November To-Do List and Events	December To-Do List and Events

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