NintendoChristmas is just one of many annual events celebrated in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, appropriately marked in the game as ‘Toy Day’.
In this guide, we’ll show you everything you need to know about the Toy Day event and the return of the Jingle character.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Christmas Toy Day Event Guide
Timetable for Christmas and Toy Day events
Toy Day festivities will take place on December 24 – Christmas Eve – starting at 5 am, and will run for 24 full hours. Special Toy Day-themed music will also be heard on your island – another clue that the holiday is coming.
How to Find Jingle
At the time of the event, Jingle the reindeer can be found External resident services, along with her bag of toys and treats. There, he will be waiting for your help in the elaboration festive wrapping paper and distributing gifts from Santa Claus to other residents.
All you can do for Christmas and toy day
Below is a complete list of all activities you can participate in Toy Day – read the article for more specific details about each activity:
- Meet Jingle in front of the Resident Services in December, 24
- Unlock the DIY festive wrapping paper Jingle recipe
- Office 3 of Festive wrapping paper items and give them to Jingle
- We get Toy Day Socks hang in your house
- Get Jingle’s Magic bag of gifts
- Visit each of your neighbors, inside and outside their homes, to give them your gifts of the magic bag
- Get a reward (Pile of presents) from Jingle after delivering most of the gifts
- Get a second Jingle reward (Santa’s sleigh) after distributing all gifts
- Exchange wrapped personal gifts with your neighbors later to receive more color variations of Nook’s Cranny Christmas Toy Day items
- Hang your Toy Day socks at your house that night on the 24th, and check them in the morning of the 25th to receive Jingle’s photo
How to make festive wrapping paper for jingle
On Toy Day, Jingle will first ask for your help in making festive wrapping paper for Santa’s gifts. He will introduce you to DIY recipe for the Festive Wrapping Paper and ask you to make 3 pieces for it.
To create each piece of festive wrapping paper, you will need to one of each of the different colors of ornaments, that can be shaken from decorated cedars.
After creating the wrapping paper and presenting it to Jingle, he will give you a set of Toy Day Socks – that can be hanging on your home wall. Make sure you do that that night, so that you can check it out on the morning of the 25th and receive the photo of Jingle!
In addition, Jingle will ask for your help in distributing Santa’s gifts to residents of the island, after which he will grant you a Magic bag, containing gifts for each of your neighbors.
Offering Christmas presents to Santa Claus villagers with a magic bag
Unlike previous games, at Toy Day in New Horizons, a gift will be given to your Magic Bag neighbors automatically when you speak to them – there is no need to maintain a list of tips or track desired items.
If the resident has a high level of friendship with you, sometimes they will give you a gift in return! It will often be a different color variation from the toys you can get at Nook’s Cranny (see “Festive toys for sale at Nook’s Cranny“list below).
Although it is not a requirement for wear a Santa outfit Able Sisters – as it was in previous games – by doing this, you will get some reactions of your neighbors.
In addition, you can check how many gifts you left to distribute by clicking on the Magic Bag in your inventory. Do not forget talk to Jingle when you’ve distributed most of your gifts, and after distributing them all, for some special rewards!
Give personal gifts to villagers after distributing gifts
Once you’ve distributed all of Santa’s gifts, you’ll be able to exchange personal gifts with the villagers. Make sure to wrap each item in wrapping paper (they will give you some if you don’t have any).
In return, they will give you different color variations of the toys that can be obtained at Nook’s Cranny throughout December (see “Festive toys for sale at Nook’s Cranny“list below).
Set of Christmas items for toys
Below are all the items you can get while participating in Toy Day activities:
| Item image | Item name | How to obtain |
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Pile of presents | Delivering most of the gifts and talking to Jingle |
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Toy Day Sleigh | Delivering all the presents and talking to Jingle |
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Red wrapping paper | Talk to villagers and try to exchange personal gifts with them without any gifts wrapped in your inventory |
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Jingle photo | Hang your toy socks on your home wall on Christmas Eve and check them out on the morning of the 25th |
Festive toys for sale at Nook’s Cranny
In addition to the Toy Day items you can receive, below is a complete list of all festive toy items available for purchase at Nook’s Cranny throughout December. Please note that while there are many color variations for all toys, your island’s Nook’s Cranny will carry only one set of variants – be sure to trade with your friends to collect them all!
| Item image | Item name | Color variants |
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Dinosaur toy | Gray, brown, green, blue, red |
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Doll house | Red, Brown, Blue, Orange, Green, Pink, Purple |
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Children’s Tent | White, pink, black, stripes, floral, blue, brown, colorful |
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Mini Circuit | Red and white, blue and yellow, black and silver, pink and purple |
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Pop-Up Book | The Ocean Blue, The Mesozoic World, Savannah, Flowers |
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Stuffed puppy | Beige, red, lemon and white, spotted, black, tricolor, gray and white, pink |
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RC Helicopter | Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, Pink, Light blue, Purple |
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Tin Robot | Silver, Blue, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Pink, Black |
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