Problem Jump

I have been trying to think of a way that I can create the illusion that the strawberries are jumping into the bottle of smoothie as this is my story plan at this stage, but this is proving to be very difficult. I have tried to add strings on to the strawberries and tie it up to the ceiling, then try to pull the string up and take pictures of the strawberry at the various levels of height, but this has not worked. The the strawberries are far to heavy for the string and keep falling off. Also I have tried to stick the strawberries to the wall just to make it look as though the strawberries are off of the work top, which I later tried to edit the image in Photoshop still did not look good so I think my best bet is to add legs to the strawberries or try to think of another story line.
I am still unhappy with the character trying to rip himself out of the page but I will concentrate on this once I figure out a way of getting the strawberry characters to move and jump in a realistic way.