Suggestions for Buddhist themed crafts and activities for children I organise an afternoon where we invite parents and children to out my local Buddhist centre. I put on some craft type activity for the children and then we do a mini reflection and a story. The adults eat cake. Previously I have been shamelessly inspired (i.e. pinched) the ideas for crafts from the local Methodist church (my wife used to go to their family afternoon). But I would really like some crafts and/or activity that are themed around Buddhist practice and or texts and stories.

The children are between 1 and about 7 years old but some older ones did attend last time and it was particularly challenging to think of something for them. I think they got bored. I don't mind spending money on materials - I do that anyway in the spirit of contribution to the centre.

Many thanks for any all ideas
Meditation for children is a good video series for kids. It's also available in DVD format. 
There are some cartoons of the Jataka stories in youtube
There are about 550 Jataka stories available which you can read to kids. Here are some simple English translations.