What do you do with a worn out Bible? It seems sacrelegious to throw it away. My mother-in-law has a great plan. For each of her grandchildren, she saved an older Bible of hers or someone else in the family to give them on their 18th birthday. This has been a very special rite of passage for each one. They love seeing the first owner's notes in the margins, underlining, etc.
At youth camps, sometimes craft people have used pages from an old Bible to make decopage plaques or cards, burning the edges and all.
A great story on this topic: My father is a builder, and recently he was tearing apart a cabin that had once belonged to his parents. Between the floor boards, he found an old Bible of my grandfather's, who had been a Baptist minister all his life. It has no cover, some of the pages have ripped off in Genesis or Revelation, the pages are fragile and yellowed, but it is a treasure to my family seeing his handwriting in the margins, underlining, etc. I suggested to my parents to get a shadow box to put it in, open, to hang on the wall.
Hope this gives you some ideas!
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