With my remaing bottle tops and bottoms clustered together my friend decided he could play with them and make something bigger..

My massive cluster

Turns out a lot more of the clusters were glued than he expected..

Apart from two ends that we made into a miniture bottle- I would buy this out of pure cuteness!

Instead we went back to the game we made earlier (see previous project) and made a new function of the big bottle top and string- a human grandfather clock and pendulum!

Although making a good accordian, he was determined to squash the bottle even more..

Needless to say he was unsuccessful unless he got himself a paint stripper..

The next idea developed from two identical tops of bottles that fitted together perfectly to produce a grenade shaped design which we then decided to fill with as many bottle lids as we could.

Dropping them from a height seemed like a good idea if we were able to capture the action at the split second the bottle contraption were to touch the floor- easy in theory, unless you are rubbish with cameras like us!

We tried many attempts and failed..

I guess the moral of the story is to get help from someone who knows what they're doing with a camera before they go galavanting off to explore France.. Something I would do if I did this experiment again!

Some pretty reasonable attempts, but still appalling!
 

My friend and I decided to call it a day and tidy up the mess we made ready for another day.. starting with the leaves he managed to walk halfway around the studio.

Compacting all the wrappers into a bottle was the best solution to save space and look interesting at the same time- we could now play a game to identify as many wrapper brands as possible in 60 seconds!

I actually really like the concept of stuffing the bottle with the wrappers; it creates something that would remind you of a message in a bottle that's old and been in many people's hands, whereas if the wrappers were folded before putting into the bottle, it would create a completely different impact.

I enjoyed the experimental session with my desk and its contents and found it very entertaining as well as mind stimulating for both my friend and myself. I would definitely recommend doing this at the start of any project- getting some people together and just documenting your playtime!