Itunes gift card...how do i use it?

hello,...my nine year old daughter is all excited about her new green ipod nano and we went to the grocery store to get her a twenty dollar gift card....the thing is ....how do we use it?
....(i do not want her to use my credit card whenever she wants,... nor does she want to use my itunes account...she wants HER OWN)...
...she is very independent....
...does she have to have an account with a cc or can we set up her account without a cc?....she will want to go out on occasion to buy a itunes gift card whenever she saves enuf $......please help us....

Actually, I just finished doing this for my daughter.
Go to the iTunes store.
Click on your account at the top right, then click Sign Out. This will get you out of your account and allow you to create a new account with the gift card.
Click on Redeem on the right side of iTunes.
Input the gift card number and it'll ask you to sign in.
Click on Create new account.
At the billing/address info, click on None for the credit card.
It should go thru and finish and show the account name and amount in it from the gift card at the top of iTunes.
To make it a little easier for her to make sure she doesn't get the wrong songs, do this;
Create a new playlist.
Have her look thru the store and find what she wants. Double click the songs to hear 30 seconds of it to make sure it is the correct song.
Instead of immediatley clicking Buy, drag the song to the new playlist.
After she she has selected the songs she wants, let her look & listen thru the playlist to make sure those are the songs she wants (and that you agree with), you can click Buy on the songs.
If she ends up with a few cents left on the account (she will), you can enter your CC number in her account, purchase one song or so to use the remainder of the card and the diference will go on your card. It'll only be a few cents or so.
Download the song, then go back into her account and edit the CC info and select None.it will not remember your CC info and she won't be able to purchase songs unless she gets another Gift card or again enters a valid CC.

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