NintendoChristmas is just one of the many annual events held in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, appropriately marked in the game as “Toy Day.”
In this guide, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about the Toy Day event and the character Jingle is returning.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Christmas Toy Day Guide Guide
Schedules of Christmas Day events and toys
Toy Day festivities will take place on December 24th – Christmas night – it will start at 5am and last 24 full hours. Music with special songs about Toy Day, another holiday track, will also be heard on your island.
How to find Jingle
At the time of the event, Jingle the reindeer can be found outside Resident Services, along with your bag of toys and items. There, he will be waiting for your help to make crafts festive wrapping paper and handing out Santa gifts to other villagers.
Everything you can do for Christmas and Toy Day
Below is a complete list of all activities you can participate on Toy Day; read the article for more specific details on each activity:
- Find Jingle in front of Resident Services enabled December 24th
- Unlock the file DIY festive wrapping paper Jingle recipe
- Crafts 3 of the Festive wrapping paper items and give them to Jingle
- Get Toy day socks to hang in your house
- Get the Jingle one Magic bag of gifts
- Visit each of your neighbors, both inside and outside your home, a make them their gifts of the Magic Bag
- Get a reward (Stack of gifts) from Jingle after delivering most of the gifts
- Get a second reward from Jingle (Santa’s sleigh) after handing out all the gifts
- Exchanges wrapped personal gifts then, with your neighbors, to receive more color variations of Nook’s Cranny Toy Christmas items
- Hang up on Toy Day socks at your home that evening of the 24th and check them out on the morning of the 25th at receives the photo of Jingle
How to make festive wrapping paper for Jingle
On toy day, Jingle will first ask for your help crafting some festive wrapping paper for Santa’s gifts. He will introduce you to the DIY recipe for the Festive Packaging Paper and ask him to make 3 pieces of it.
To make each piece of festive wrapping paper, you will need one of each of the different colors of the ornaments, which can be shaken from the decorated cedars.
After crafting the wrapping paper and presenting it to Jingle, he will give you a set Toy day socks – that maybe hanging on the wall of your house. Be sure to do it that evening, so you can check them 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 the island’s residents, and then give you a Magic bag, which contains gifts for each of your neighbors.
Christmas presents to the villagers of Santa Claus with magic bag
Unlike previous games, Toy Day in New Horizons, a gift will be automatically given to your neighbors from the Magic Bag when you talk to them – You don’t have to keep a list of tips or track down the items they’d like.
If the villager has one high level of friendship with you, sometimes they will give you a gift in return. There 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 mandatory wear a Santa costume of the Able Sisters (as it was in previous games), by doing so, you will get a little brave reactions of your neighbors.
Plus, you can check how many gifts you have left to deliver by clicking on the Magic Bag in your inventory. Don’t forget it Talk to Jingle both of you when you’ve handed out most of your gifts, and after handing them all out, for some special rewards!
Make personal gifts to the villagers after handing out gifts
After handing in all the Santa gifts, you will be able to exchange personal gifts with villagers. Be sure to wrap each item with wrapping paper (some will be given to you if you don’t have one).
In return, they will provide you with different color variations of the toys that have been available at Nook’s Cranny throughout December (see “Festive toys for sale at Nook’s Cranny“list below).
Christmas Toy Set Items
Here are all the items you can get while participating in Toy Day activities:
| Image of the item | Item name | How it is obtained |
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Stack of gifts | Delivering most gifts and talking to Jingle |
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Toy Day Sleigh | Delivering all the gifts and talking to Jingle |
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Red wrapping paper | Talking to the villagers and trying to exchange personal gifts with them without any gift wrapped in your inventory |
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Photo of Jingle | Hanging Toy Day socks on the wall of the house on Christmas Eve and checking them out on the 25th in the morning |
Festive toys for sale at Nook’s Cranny
In addition to the Toy Day items you can receive, below is one Complete list of all holiday toy items available for purchase at Nook’s Cranny throughout December. Keep in mind that while there are many color variants of all toys, your island’s Nook’s Cranny will only carry one set of variants; be sure to exchange them with your friends to pick them all up.
| Image of the item | Item name | Color variants |
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Dinosaur toy | Gray, brown, green, blue, red |
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Doll’s house | Red, brown, blue, orange, green, pink, purple |
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Children’s tent | White, pink, black, striped, 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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Emerging book | The ocean blue, the Mesozoic world, the savannah, the flowers |
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Puppy stuffed animal | Beige, red, lemon and white, stained, 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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