Wrap your kindergarten phonics exercises in fun. Try this kindergarten phonics activity that enhances reading skills. Simply take your kids on a phonics adventure through pictures they snap themselves.

Go big! Make a horizontal canvas out of banner paper to give your child's creativity room to roam. The art you'll be attaching to the banner paper will make the kindergarten phonics fun come alive.

Let your kids have free use of your camera or buy them disposable cameras.

They'll take their own pictures for this exercise.

Center the photos around a theme. Animals, nature, grocery store items -- any theme they decide is perfect.

Start snapping. Go to a dog show. Visit a fire station. Stand in the yard and take pictures of passing cars. Encourage your kids to take pictures of anything that will fit into the theme they chose.

They can start with the letter and A and work their way to Z. Or, you can write an A-Z list so they can check off each letter as they take their photos. This just ensures you have all of the letters covered and won't be missing any when you get home.

They can take more than one picture for a certain letter too. At a dog show, they might take pictures of an Akita, audience, arm band and award. A fire station might give kids ideas to take pictures of a firefighter, fire truck, food and friends. Pictures for a cars theme could be of a Mustang, mirror, man and the color maroon.

Decorate your canvas for your theme. Draw dog houses for a dog theme, a cat in a tree for a fire station or a road for a cars theme.

Kids can use their imagination to decorate the backdrop.

Gather all of your pictures and help your kids sort them by letter. Ask them about each picture. You want to hear your kids say the name of the letter and reinforce its phonetic sound to them.

Glue each picture along the banner paper, going from A to Z and left to right. As they glue, ask them to say the name of the item again, the letter it starts with and the phonetic sound it makes.

One option to make this kindergarten phonics exercise more fun for kids is to cut around the item they want to highlight. Instead of pasting the entire 4x6 picture, for example, help them cut around the Akita from the dog show. They'll only paste the picture of the dog as opposed to the handler, hairbrush and anything else that might take away from the phonics lesson focusing on that one letter and its sound.

The fun's not over just because all of the pictures have been glued to the banner paper. Review the kindergarten phonics lesson every day. Take time to go over all of the pictures, the letters and their sounds daily. Let your kids tell the story behind their photos too so they don't lose interest in the activity.

Do it all again. Take on another theme for a kindergarten phonics lesson. Start back at step one and hang fresh banner paper. Challenge your kids to see how much of their bedroom walls they can cover with banner paper as they take on new themes you can use to teach them phonics.