Each month, Family Trails will share a theme to guide and inspire your storytelling. We encourage you to answer via Instagram using #FamilyTrailsTales!

Throughout the month we will highlight your submissions on our social media and feature an end-of-month round up right here on FamilyTrails.com.

For this month's visual storytelling theme, we asked families to demonstrate their love of nature, being outside, getting dirty, and riff on the theme "earth".

Without further ado, here are some of the stories you told as you explored the earth: