Forget frosty. Waterloo teacher fills lawn with Easter Island snow sculptures, gives them names

To get through a long, cold, dark Canadian winter, sometimes you need a unique hobby, and Waterloo, Ontario teacher Matt Morris has found one. He builds 7-foot tall snow versions of Easter Island Moai sculptures in his front yard.

How did it all start for him? Morris tells As It Happens host Carol Off, "I was in a museum and turned a corner and there before me was a full sized Easter Island statue and I took one look at it and said to my wife, 'We can do this out of snow back in Waterloo.'"

Morris creates the snow sculptures using a home-made mold. "I designed a little eight sided form made out of some junk plywood and two-by-fours. I let it sit in the form for about four hours and then pull off the plywood and voila!"

Morris's hobby doesn't end there. He names his snow creations, and tweets out pictures featuring them with little comic bubbles of dialogue.

Here are some highlights:

Kitchener-Waterloo weather too cold even for Easter Island snow people! @CBCKW891 pic.twitter.com/2Hi6CjCTWu-- Matt Morris (@Matthew_Morris) January 13, 2015

Say 'cheese'! Or is it 'freeze'! pic.twitter.com/A0F2tGkNJB-- Matt Morris (@Matthew_Morris) January 17, 2015

Easter Island snow sculptures confront a 'heat wave'. #snowman #Waterloo pic.twitter.com/DQvLxlZNPH-- Matt Morris (@Matthew_Morris) January 16, 2015

A typical day on the snowbank. pic.twitter.com/lx8jf1UrsB-- Matt Morris (@Matthew_Morris) January 13, 2015