Where (when?) do you get the bonfire and tiki torch recipes from? My kiddo has them but doesn't remember how he got them and I need me some tiki torches!

I think it may be the Basic DIY recipes sold by Timmy?

or maybe in the bottles that wash up on the beach.... don’t remember where I got them, but I have both.

I have the Basic DIY recipes but it's not in there. Is it perhaps because I'm not the "administrator" of the town and just an added account resident? I'll keep checking the bottle messages and balloon shoot downs too ha

I'm pretty sure I got the bonfire recipe early on, sometime right after finishing the first "day" when you name your town. I also found a diy recipe for the bonfire in a bottle that washed up.

Lol I thought you just had them automatically. I assumed because the bonfire was never mentioned in text but there was one in the cutscene before you go to bed to start your real first day, that it was related to seeing that particular scene.
Similar to how you get some of the Rattan (Cabana) furniture added to your catalog just for visiting Harvey's Island even if you didn't pick it up.