Barnyard Racing begins as a craft project. The 3-D board is decorated and colored with markers and rubber stamps that are provided.

On the completed board, players race their animals around the board by drawing a card and moving the number of spaces indicated. When a picnic space is reached, the player chooses a stamp from a selection of face down stamps, each depicting a different food. If the stamp matches the picture on the picnic space, the player stamps their stamp book. A player wins when all food stamps are in their stamp book.