Thank you for commenting & playing! ^^
This was our first game jam, so we were actually REALLY surprised how far we got with the project!! You're right that our tie into the theme might not be super "out there". For us the main tie into the theme was carrying and holding only one item at a time, but we also decided very early on to make the entire game happen on one screen to keep the scope of our project in check :) Hope this explains our thoughts a bit!