When you first dive into Hello Kitty Island Adventure, it’s hard to miss the big pink flowers that litter the map. They’re permanently closed, at least to start with, and you can’t seem to do anything with them, but they do eventually have a very important role to play.
These closed pink buds are called Gift Flowers. When you water a Gift Flower, it will open up and give you an otherwise hard-to-get item that can be used as a gift for one of the characters. Before you reach a point when you can make three-heart gifts yourself, this method to get them can be extremely useful.
How do Gift Flowers work in Hello Kitty Island Adventure?

After you’ve unlocked the Watering Can by completing My Melody’s level 14 quest, “Flower Power,” you can start exploring Friendship Island with the new ability to open up these pink buds. Because the Watering Can is one of the tools that’s always active, all you need to do is walk up to the Gift Flower and press the button in the bottom right of your screen.
When you water a Gift Flower, an item or cooking recipe will pop out, which you’ll need to manually pick up just as you would any other resource. If you already have the recipe given by the flower, you will receive a pre-made version of that recipe instead.
Gift Flowers are only ever found on the land, so there’s no point looking for them while you’re adventuring around Rainbow Reef, and Gift Flowers do not respawn once you’ve watered them. These are a one-time helping hand, but you will at least end up with some pretty flowers decorating the place once you’ve watered them.
All Gift Flower locations in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
There are 71 Gift Flowers dotted around the main areas of Friendship Island. To make this easier, I’ve separated the different locations and created maps to guide you to all the relevant locations.
Seaside Resort
Total Gift Flowers: 15

Spooky Swamp
Total Gift Flowers: 12

Gemstone Mountain
Total Gift Flowers: 15

Mount Hothead
Total Gift Flowers: 11

Merry Meadow
Total Gift Flowers: 10

Cloud Island
Total Gift Flowers: 9

Gift Flower rewards in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
It would hardly be worth seeking out all of the Gift Flowers if the rewards on offer weren’t incredibly tempting, but there’s a very good reason to hunt down these little buds. Although you can get a wide variety of items and resources from inside, one of the most common drops is three-heart gifts for the various residents of Friendship Island.
Here’s everything that can drop from Gift Flowers in Island Adventure:
Resource | Strawberry Toasted Almond Flour |
Oven recipes | Strawberry Shortcake Pineapple Stack Cake Cinnamon Bread Strawberry Almond Galette Sakura Cake Red Bow Apple Pie Chocolate Balls Pumpkin Pie Tofu Bread Pastry Sugarkelp Cake Mama’s Apple Pie Almond Pound Cake Spooky Cake Beignets with Pineapple Dip Volcano Cake Toasted Almond Cake |
Dessert Machine recipes | Tofu Pudding Sakura Pudding Purple Pudding Chocolate Pineapple Pudding Magma Pudding Boulder Bits Ice Cream Banana Ice Cream Apple Ice Cream |
Soda Machine recipes | Strawberry Soda Soda Fiery Soda |
Pizza Oven recipes | Pineapple Pizza Toasty Pizza Pizza |
Espresso Machine recipes | Pink Latte Candlenut Coffee Mocha |
Recipes | Veggie Pizza (Pumpkin) Strawberry Almond Galette |
Furniture & decor | Yummy Armchair Yummy Bed Yummy Dining Table Yummy Dresser Yummy Mirror Yummy Side Table Yummy Sofa Aquatic Star Tropical Star Volcanic Star Swampy Star Dreamy Star Rocky Star Big Challenges Wallpaper Big Challenges Flooring Aquatic Lamb Plush Rocky Lamb Plush Volcanic Lamb Plush Swampy Lamb Plush Dreamy Lamb Plush |
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