Animal Crossing Maple leaf: How to get maple leaves and find the maple leaf DIY recipes in New Horizons explained

Maple leaf season dates in Animal Crossing: New Horizons explained

Maple leaf season only lasts a week in New Horizons and, depending on which hemisphere your island is located in, it will occur at a different part of the year.

In the northern hemisphere, maple leaf season runs from November 16th to November 25th.

In the southern hemisphere, however, you can enjoy maple leaf season from April 16th to April 25th.

During this season, much like the cherry blossom season in the spring, you'll be able to find maple leaves, one of the many seasonal materials, and find the DIY recipes for the maple leaf set.

Both the DIY recipes and the seasonal material they require can also be found during this time period, so, if you want to complete the maple leaf set, make sure you visit your island during this week.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons: 17 Advanced Tips and Tricks for Your Island

Watch on YouTube

How to catch a maple leaf in Animal Crossing: New Horizons explained

Maple leaves in New Horizons are caught in the same fashion as cherry blossom petals were caught earlier in the year. Though, thankfully, the maple leaves are easier to spot.

As you explore your island during maple leaf season, you'll be able to catch the leaves fall, but, every so often, you'll notice a large, brown, leaf floating through the air - this is a maple leaf.

Once you've found a maple leaf, pull out your net and catch it just like you would a bug.

Be quick though, as maple leaves will only be available for a short amount of time before they disappear. If you don't manage to catch the leaf in time, you'll have to search out a new one.

Maple leaf prices in Animal Crossing: New Horizons explained

Like most items in New Horizons, maple leaves can be sold at Nook's Cranny for some Bells.

A single maple leaf will earn you 200 Bells, so you can easily sell them for some quick cash if you need it.

Animal Crossing maple leaf DIY recipe list: How many are there?

There are nine maple leaf DIY recipes for you to collect in New Horizons. It's important to note that a number of these DIY recipes also require acorns and pine cones alongside the maple leaves.

Here are the nine entries in the maple leaf set:

• Autumn wall
• Colored-leaves flooring
• Leaf stool
• Maple-leaf pochette
• Maple-leaf pond stone
• Maple-leaf umbrella
• Red-leaf pile
• Tree's bounty arch
• Tree's bounty big tree

How to find maple leaf DIY recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons explained

Like all seasonal material DIY recipes, the maple leaf DIY recipes can be found by opening the presents dropped by balloons in New Horizons.

The maple leaf DIY recipes are not, however, confined to a specific balloon colour, which means that you can pop every single balloon that floats across your island with the hope that its present might contain one of the recipes.

You will also receive the Red-leaf pile DIY recipe from Isabelle the first time you play New Horizons during maple leaf season. This DIY recipe will be automatically loaded into your DIY recipe list, so, after you've caught enough maple leaves, you can make as many Red-leaf piles as you like.

This, however, is the only DIY recipe in the maple leaf set that is found this way.

The Animal Crossing 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise is here! We can help you with the new additions - including where to find Brewster, Gyroids, new villagers, ordinances, new fences, storage shed, new hairstyles, Froggy Chair, group stretching and Kapp'n boat tours. Cooking is now unlockable, so you need to know how to make both flour and sugar, as well as how to grow carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. Meanwhile, if you're new to Animal Crossing, our New Horizons tips can help with the basics. From the off, there's fish and bugs to catch, flowers and fruit to grow with. One long term goal is building your Happy Home Academy score. Finally, you need tools such as the new ladder and vaulting pole to fully explore.

Tips for finding maple leaf DIY recipe in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Since maple leaf season only lasts a week in New Horizons, you're mostly likely going to want to collect all of the maple leaf DIY recipes very early on, so that you can focus on catching the actual maple leaves you need to craft the items.

For this reason, we've written up a number of tips to help you pop every balloon you see and, hopefully, find all of the maple leaf DIY recipes:

• Balloons only spawn during minutes ending with a '4' or '9.' This means that, as long as you pop the balloons, that there's a chance of a new balloon spawning every five minutes. It doesn't, however, guarantee that one will.
• The direction balloons fly in changes depending on whether you're playing during the day or night. Throughout the day, balloons will fly in a westerly direction across your island, but, when 6pm falls, you'll discover that balloons will start flying from the east.
• The sound of the wind will help you. When a balloon is flying near you in New Horizons, you'll be able to hear a whistling noise. If you hear this sound, make sure you follow it, so that you can find, and destroy, that balloon.

• Be careful where you pop the balloons! If you pop a balloon over water, unwalkable rocks or flowers, then the present attached to it will disappear, taking the reward inside with it.
• Put the camera into rolling mode. When the camera is set to rolling mode, you'll be able to see further and get a better view of the sky at the same time, making it easier to spot any incoming balloons.
• Craft or buy multiple slingshots. You're going to destroy a lot of balloons in your quest to find every single maple leaf DIY recipe, so it's a good idea to bring a couple of slingshots with you to ensure that you don't risk missing a balloon.

Good luck finding all of the maple leaf DIY recipes and, don't forget, you can also find the DIY recipes for the acorn, pine cones and mushroom sets during maple season as well!