How to Make a Snowman in Animal Crossing: New Horizon

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has plenty of fun seasonal activities for players to enjoy. This includes the building of snowmen, also known as “Snowboys” as rewarding decorative figures. See the steps below on how to make a snowman in Animal Crossing: New Horizon.

When Can You Build Snowboys?

You can start building your Snowboys once the snow falls and cover your island. Players in the Northern Hemisphere would have to wait for quite a while since the snow falls around mid-December. Meanwhile, Southern Hemisphere players can enjoy earlier as the snow arrives around mid-June. You can start creating your Snowboys once you’ve spotted two randomly placed snowballs in open areas.

Finding Snowballs

Can you spot these snowballs anywhere? Well, these snowballs aren’t quite easy to spot given the snow covered the entire island. So, the first step in how to make a snowman in Animal Crossing: New Horizon is to find its location.

1. Look for two snowballs on your island’s open grass areas
2. These snowballs typically spawn near each other
3. No snowballs will appear if your airport gate is open
4. If you accidentally break a snowball, you can respawn it by saving and reloading your game

The Snowboy Building Process

After finding these two snowballs, you can finally start your Snowboy-making adventure. Follow these steps to make your snowman in Animal Crossing: New Horizon:

1. First, locate both snowballs in an open area
2. Kick these snowballs to start moving them (they’ll be too small to roll initially)
3. Once large enough, you can push them with your hands
4. Roll the snowballs on grass only – rolling them over patterns, paths, or sand will make them shrink
5. Find a spacious location for your Snowboy, as you’ll need room to interact with him
6. Combine the two snowballs by rolling one into the other

Creating the Perfect Snowboy

One important tip in creating your Snowboy is to make it perfect. Only a perfect Snowboy gets a reward in the game. Players can receive seasonal DIY recipes and Large Snowflakes. Here are the steps on how to make the perfect snowman in Animal Crossing: New Horizon:

1. Roll one of your snowballs until it reaches the height of your character’s eyes
2. Position this larger snowball where you want your Snowboy to stand
3. Roll your second snowball until it reaches the height of your character’s ears (slightly smaller than the first)
4. Carefully push your smaller snowball into the larger one
5. A perfect Snowboy will immediately congratulate you on your snowcrafting skills

Now, if the Snowboy doesn’t congratulate you then you might have done the proportions wrong. Just quickly restart the process by clicking the Switch’s Home button. This closes the game before it can even auto-save your progress.

Snowboy Rewards

Besides the fun and engaging activity it is, it is also extremely rewarding for any player that makes the perfect kind. Animal Crossing hands out two key rewards to their players such as:

• DIY Recipes: Each perfect Snowboy gives you one unique ice-themed DIY recipe
• Large Snowflakes: Your perfect Snowboy will provide one Large Snowflake daily for four days until he melts

You may use the Large Snowflakes as crafting materials for any winter DIY recipes. However, these recipes also require some regular Snowflakes which are easy to catch with the help of net. Here are all the Snowboy DIY Recipe collection for the season:

• Frozen Arc (10 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Bed (10 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Chair (3 Snowflakes,1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Counter (5 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Mini Snowperson (2 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Partition (6 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Pillar (3 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Sculpture (4 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Table (8 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen-treat Set (1 Snowflake, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Frozen Tree (8 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Ice Flooring (8 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Ice Wall (8 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Ice Wand (3 Star Fragments, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Snowperson Head (5 Snowflakes, 1 Large Snowflake)
• Three-tiered Snowperson (6 Snowflakes, 2 Tree Branches, 1 Large Snowflake)

Conclusion

This guide on how to make a snowman in Animal Crossing: New Horizon teaches everything from the basics to perfect ways. Players will simply need to follow all the steps to be successful and earn their rewards from snowboys. It is one of the awaited seasonal activities by players throughout the year.