4 iPhones, need to separate apple id's

I have 4 iPhones in my family, when I first started with these devices for my wife and kids, I used the same apple ids for all of them. Now I'd like every device to have its own apple id, how do I go about doing it?

To change the ID:
For iMessage, go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive (Receive At in iOS 5), tap the ID sign out, sign back in using the other ID.
For FaceTime, do the same thing in Settings>FaceTime.
For Purchasing, do this in Settings>iTunes & App Stores (Settings>Store in iOS 5).
For iCloud, for the devices that will be changing accounts, you'll have to first save any photos in your my photo stream album that are not in your camera roll or backed up somewhere else or you will lose them.  To do this, open the photo stream album in the thumbnail view, tap Edit, tap all the photos you want to save, tap Share, then tap Save to Camera Roll. You then have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account,  when prompted choose Keep on My iPhone, set up the new iCloud account with the new ID, turn on iCloud data syncing again and when prompted choose Merge to upload the data to the new account.  Once they are all on separate accounts, if you have any data in any of the accounts that you don't want, you'll have to go to icloud.com on your computer, sign into each account separately and delete it.

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