How do I use family share to setup a new device for my child when I don't already have one with iOS 8?

My kids want apple products.
I don't own any.
I buy an iPad for one and an iPhone for the other, but I can't set them up because they require me to setup Family Share and create accounts.  I can't do that because I don't have a device with iOS 8 already setup.
I do have a valid AppleID.  I've had it for years.  I use it with iTunes.
I wish they would just let me manage the account setup and Family Share through a web page.  Right now I'm dead in the water and Christmas is approaching fast.

I have found a solution.
It turns out that all the documentation I could find on the web was wrong.  At least in the case of the iPad I just bought. I did manage to borrow a device so that I could setup family share and the kids accounts, but when I went to enter the new existing account into the setup of the iPad, it then started leading me through the process to create the account (clearly it didn't bother to check if it really existed already).  In reality, I believe had I just entered a "new ID" for my child, that didn't exist, it would have led me through the same process.  As it was, I had to back out to the first screen and skip the creation process, since I had already created the IDs elsewhere.
The only part I'm not clear on, is if I still would first have needed to turn on family sharing for my ID before starting this whole process, or whether it would automate that while creating the child AppleID.

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