The Royal Botanical Gardens, the largest attraction of its kind in Canada, has installed Lego sculptures of plants and animals throughout one of its parks.

The colourful works were created by New York artist Sean Kenney, whose Lego statues are touring across North America and are now also on show in Memphis, Tenn., and Houston, Texas.

Among the 14 sculptures scattered in Hendrie Park, there's a human-sized praying mantis made of 42,164 Lego bricks, a monarch butterfly with one-metre-long wings (60,549 bricks), and a bald eagle (42,198 bricks).

Kenney used more than 300,000 Lego pieces in total.

Kenney's Nature Connects series is at the RBG until Aug. 20.

Also, on Thursday June 8 the RBG will teach you to create a stop-motion LEGO movie. That event will be held between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Additional sessions will be held July 6 and Aug. 16. Cost is $55 per person.