Good idea!
I’ll give them a try!
Thanks for the suggestion!
I just gave a quick Google and came up with this (I think it was written more for congregations replacing their hymnals?):
Reuse: Find a New Home for your hymnals!
The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada will post a notice in their widely read newsletter, The Stanza, regarding donated hymnals. Please send all pertinent information to office@thehymnsociety.org(link sends e-mail).
Check with other churches in your area— those who continue to use the previous Psalter Hymnals may need to replace hymnals that are in poor condition.
Donate them to the library—your church library, the local public library, school libraries, etc.
Donate them to a retirement community or nursing home in your area.
Donate them to Goodwill or another thrift store. However, it might be wise to make sure that they are not inundated with hymnals… Our best guess—no thrift store is going to want 300 copies of the same book on their shelves.
Also, if you’re crafty, I know there’s lots of crafts that use old book pages that you could probably do the same thing with the hymnal if so inclined.