With winter comes plenty of new activities like sledding, ice skating and of course snowball fights, but when it's too cold to stay outside for more than 15 minutes, it's time for a new activity: frozen pants.

 

The trend seems to have started with Minneapolis resident Tom Grotting, who is well known in the area for freezing his pants and displaying them for his neighbors to see, ABC News reports.

 

Seeing pants like this sort of looks like a mix between a bad jeans ad and a horror film, and it's certain to get at least a few double takes.

 

Grotting explains that in order to get the pants to stand up, he soaks them in a bucket of water, then hangs them outside as they freeze.

 

"I mostly do it for my neighbor, Diane," Grotting told ABC News. "The winter gets a little long and she doesn't like winter very much so it's mostly entertainment for Diane."

 

Grotting says he started creating his frozen artwork a few years ago when the area was hit with a Polar Vortex, causing extremely low temperatures, perfect for pant sculpting². But things really took off when he submitted a picture of one of his pants to a local Facebook page, I Love N.E. Minneapolis.

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