Young Spring Bamboo DIY Recipes: How To Get & Season Dates

Young Spring Bamboo (DIY Recipes List & How To Get)

Updated on February 19, 2026 by Justin

Young Spring Bamboo is a seasonal crafting material in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) used to craft special bamboo themed DIY recipes!

There are 12 different DIY recipes that you can craft using Young Spring Bamboo seasonal materials in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

You can primarily find these DIY recipes by shooting down flying Balloon Presents from February 25th to May 31st in the Northern Hemisphere or August 25th to November 30th in the Southern Hemisphere.

Young Spring Bamboo DIY Recipe List

Young Spring Bamboo DIY Recipes0 / 12 CollectedBamboo DollYoung Spring Bamboo×6Crafted: 2,400 Bells✔Bamboo Noodle SlideYoung Spring Bamboo×7Wood×3Crafted: 3,160 Bells✔Bamboo WandYoung Spring Bamboo×6Star Fragment×3Crafted: 3,900 Bells✔Bamboo-Grove WallYoung Spring Bamboo×7Bamboo Shoot×3Crafted: 4,300 Bells✔Bamboo-Shoot LampYoung Spring Bamboo×4Bamboo Shoot×5Clay×4Crafted: 4,900 Bells✔Basket PackYoung Spring Bamboo×6Crafted: 2,400 Bells✔Green-Leaf PileYoung Spring Bamboo×1Clump Of Weeds×10Crafted: 600 Bells✔Light Bamboo Bath MatYoung Spring Bamboo×3Crafted: 1,200 Bells✔Light Bamboo RugYoung Spring Bamboo×6Crafted: 2,400 Bells✔Pan FluteYoung Spring Bamboo×7Crafted: 2,800 Bells✔Steamer-Basket SetYoung Spring Bamboo×6Crafted: 2,400 Bells✔Yellow Bamboo MatYoung Spring Bamboo×3Crafted: 1,200 Bells✔

Total Materials to Craft All 12 Recipes

62Young Spring Bamboo10Clump Of Weeds8Bamboo Shoot4Clay3Star Fragment3Wood

How To Get Young Spring Bamboo Crafting Materials

To get Young Spring Bamboo in Animal Crossing: New Horizons naturally, you’ll need to be playing in spring during February 25th to May 31st in the Northern Hemisphere or August 25th to November 30th in the Southern Hemisphere.

During this spring period, you can obtain Young Spring Bamboo by hitting a grown bamboo tree with your axe! Bamboo trees can be found either on a random mystery island visited using Nook Miles Tickets, or grown on your own island if you have planted bamboo shoots.

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When you hit a Bamboo Tree with an axe, both regular year-round Bamboo and seasonal Young Spring Bamboo will randomly drop from the bamboo tree! The special young spring bamboo drops about 33% of the time.

Be sure to use a Flimsy Axe or Stone Axe to preserve the bamboo tree and avoid chopping it down. And just like trees, you can only get bamboo materials from an individual bamboo tree three times per day.

Make A Bamboo Tree Farm

If you’re looking to get a lot of Young Spring Bamboo to craft a variety of items, it might be worthwhile setting up a bamboo tree farm somewhere on your island! Eat fruit to directly dig up entire Bamboo Trees from a mystery island, allowing you to completely skip growing them yourself.

Then you can head to your home island and begin planting them in a nicely organized farm like the example above. You can then farm both Bamboo and Young Spring Bamboo from the trees every single day by using your axe on them.

How to Get & Learn Young Spring Bamboo DIY Recipes

The main way to find Young Spring Bamboo DIY recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is by shooting down floating Balloon Presents found flying in the sky over your island from February 25th to May 31st in the Northern Hemisphere or August 25th to November 30th in the Southern Hemisphere.

During this Spring season period, all balloon presents have a chance of dropping a young spring bamboo recipe — but they can contain other non-seasonal recipes too. Duplicates are also possible as the game does not drop them in a specified order. There’s no concrete way to control exactly what you’ll get, so just keep shooting them down until you get lucky.

Watch for the balloon traveling direction — they will always fly across your island in a single direction during the morning and afternoon. Then later in the day around 6PM, the direction of wind will reverse!

Whichever end of your island the balloons are travelling from, we recommend hanging out on that beach side to regularly walk up and down the shore looking for them as they first reach the island. Pass the time by collecting some Manila Clams or trying your hand at fishing too!

Finally, flying balloon presents always have a chance of spawning on an every 5 minute cycle beginning at 4 minutes past the hour. That means you can expect possible balloon spawns at say 1:04pm, 1:09pm, 1:14pm, 1:19pm, and so on after 1pm. Keep in mind these are possible appearances though — they won’t always show up every time and a spawn time can pass by multiple times without a balloon.

Isabelle’s Morning Announcement

In addition to the balloons, the Bamboo Noodle Slide recipe can be unlocked from Isabelle in your NookPhone during her morning announcements near the beginning of the season.

What About Message Bottles & Villagers Crafting?

Contrary to popular belief, these special seasonal crafting recipes are exclusive to dropping from flying balloon presents in the sky. Your villagers crafting in their homes and messages in a bottle appearing on your beach draw from a separate pool of DIY recipes. The only exception are bottles found on the Young Spring Bamboo themed island on a Kapp’n boat tour.

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