Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Toy Day gives the gift of giving gifts

Animal Crossing’s famous Toy Day comes to New Horizons. What’s different? What does Jingle want? Why does everyone suddenly need you to build things?

Today, December 24, is Toy Day in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. If you’ve never played Animal Crossing before, Toy Day is the game’s non-denominational (yet clearly Christmas-inspired) one day holiday. Now, in the age of the internet you can only access this event today and today only. Setting your system to this date any other time will just give you a cold day on the island.

When you first get in the game, the always charming Isabelle, adorned in a festive hat, will announce the appearance of a “certain someone” showing up on the island.

That certain someone is Jingle, Animal Crossing’s jolliest seasonal NPC and quite possibly my favorite. Especially when the other seasonal NPCs include a turkey that teaches you other things to eat for Thanksgiving so you don’t consider eating him and a “bunny” that…just…will forever exist in my psyche waiting to wake me up randomly on a quiet night.

When you first encounter Jingle the charming “black-noses reindeer” gives you a duplicate of his magic bag and tasks you with giving out a give to all 10 animals that live on your island. Sadly you can’t give it to the other NPCs which I found out as I attempted to give a gift to my girl Sable only to not have that option. Once you have found all 10 residents, you can return to Jingle and let him know you’re done.

He’ll gift you with a set of holiday stockings and suggest you hang them on the walls of your home stating that you might find something in them tomorrow (I’ll report back after I test this tomorrow) if you do. Then he’ll say he has a few more gifts to give out but he needs festive wrapping paper which he forgot at home. Luckily, he remembers that you can DIY practically anything and asks you to make him some wrapping paper. He gives you the recipe and asks for three rolls of paper.

Each one takes one of each of the three ornaments. Red, gold and blue. Luckily you can shake a single tree till you get eight ornaments so you can probably get enough by just violently throttling two trees.