I finished a new puppet today! His name is Aiken. I had planned for him to be a marionette but he seemed to prefer being a rod puppet instead. The song Aiken Drum is a Scottish nursery rhyme that dates back to 1820. “Aiken” is the Scots word for “oak” and “Drum” is the word for “hill”, suggesting that the name Aiken Drum is a generic name for Highlander. It is a singing game, where children come up with different foods to correlate with different body parts (or clothing pieces). His eyes really